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December 10, 2020
Stuttering Foundation Co-sponsors Oxford Dysfluency Conference
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Remembering Jonathan Miller
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November 5, 2020
Stuttering Foundation Remembers Annie Glenn
Annie Glenn was a longtime spokesperson of The Stuttering Foundation in addition to a stalwart supporter over the years.
November 3, 2020
Letting Failure Pave the Way to Success
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October 29, 2020
Q&A with Vince Vawter
Paperboy was our Stuttering Foundation Summer Book Club pick for 2020. Author Vince Vawter graciously joined Sara MacIntyre, M.A., CCC-SLP, for a Live Q&A in August.
October 26, 2020
The Curious Life of Lewis Carroll
Down the Rabbit Hole and Through the Looking Class
October 22, 2020
Stuttering Awareness is Important Around the World

We asked individuals who stutter and SLPs across the globe to help us bring awareness to stuttering. Watch this wonderful video.
October 2, 2020
Salute to Pediatric Nurses
October 5-9 is Pediatric Nurses Week. Within the stuttering community, parents’ fear that a child is beginning to stutter is well known — and very real.
September 23, 2020
ID Cards Help During Pandemic
Fox 44 Shares Resources with Texas Viewers
September 18, 2020
Masks Can Be An Obstacle
Pittsburgh CBS station offers help to those who stutter

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CELEBRITY FOCUS

Bruce Willis

While the world knows Bruce Willis as an A-list actor, few know that he struggled with stuttering throughout his first 20 years.

Walter Bruce Willis was born in 1955 in West Germany to his German mother, Marlene, and his American GI father, David Willis. The family settled in David’s hometown of Penns Grove, New Jersey in 1957, and the couple has three other children.

King George

In November 2010, worldwide movie audiences were presented with a most interesting and unusual movie release with The King’s Speech, starring Colin Firth as King George VI and Helena Bonham Carter as his wife Elizabeth.

Unfortunately, history may have forgotten the courageous and inspiring story of Prince Albert who stuttered badly and never dreamed that he would ever be king when his older brother, King Edward VIII, abruptly abdicated the throne in 1936 to marry Wallis Simpson, an American divorcee.

Bob Love

Bob Love has dreamt about being a great public speaker since his early days in Bastrop Louisiana, even though, as a young man, he could barely put two words together, let alone speak a full sentence.

In spite of his severe stuttering disability, Bob Love, the son of a sharecropper, rose to become a Chicago Bulls NBA superstar, whose records were eventually surpassed by Michael Jordan. Throughout his entire athletic career, Bob Love kept his stuttering a secret from the fans who adored him, thinking he could do his “talking” on the basketball court.

Ken Venturi

As much of the nation watches the U.S. Open Golf Championship, it is impossible not to think about our late friend Ken Venturi. Ken overcame many challenges to win the Open at Congressional in 1964 and go on to become the voice of golf for more than three decades.

However, Ken faced no bigger obstacle than stuttering. Ken Venturi was a champion to those who stutter, going out of his way to share his personal experience when consulted by a colleague, friend, or child who stutters.

James Earl Jones

Actor James Earl Jones, a Broadway, television and movie star, is well-known for his voice as Darth Vader in Star Wars and his book Voices and Silences. Jones has spoken some of the most memorable lines in the history of American film, but the man known for his voice was once afflicted with a severe stutter.