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All The Right Words: My Journey as a Sportswriter Who Stutters

Ryan Cowley's book showcases the message the Stuttering Foundation wants to diffuse to all people who stutter—your stuttering doesn't have to stand in the way of your dreams.
Supporting Children Who Stutter

A Panel Discussion
Silent Starlet of the Silver Screen

Marion Davies was an American actor who was a popular movie star in the 1920s and particularly admired for her comedic talents on stage and screen.
Q&A with Dr. John Moss

Dr. Moss is a Pulmonary and Critical Care Physician at the Mayo Clinic Florida. He sat down with the Stuttering Foundation to discuss his many life and career successes along his lifelong journey with stuttering.
Express Yourself or Go by Freight

Perhaps you too are searching for some way out of a morass of jumbled box cars and the maze of tracks that seem to lead only to empty, deadened spurs.
What You Can Do to Help Yourself

Don't overwhelm yourself. Tomorrow is another day.
"It felt as though I had an angry tiger by the tail and dared not let go."

I deeply wish that I could reach every stutterer in the world to tell the story I am about to tell here.
Tool to Use with Clients Reading "Paperboy"

Chapter-by-chapter "Book Club Clinical Tool" explores every facet of the messages in the book Paperboy.
Emily Blunt Stars in New Disney Movie 'Jungle Cruise'

One of the stuttering community's biggest supporters and herself a person who stutters, Emily Blunt, returns to the big screen with the release of Jungle Cruise.
International Conference on Stuttering

The 2021 International Conference on Stuttering will be held Oct. 14-16 in Gubbio, Italy.

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.

James Earl Jones

Actor James Earl Jones, a Broadway, television and movie star, was well-known for his voice as Darth Vader in Star Wars and his book Voices and Silences. Jones spoke 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.

Emily Blunt

Actress Emily Blunt struggled with stuttering early in her life. A teacher encouraged her to act in a school play at age 12 despite her stuttering.

Blunt's name is prominently featured on the Stuttering Foundation's list of Famous People Who Stutter.

Lewis Carroll

The recent Disney version of Lewis Carroll's classic, Alice in Wonderland, garnered a great deal of media hype. Even though the mainstream media has not made mention that Carroll was a person who stuttered, his family history gives credence to the discovery of the genetic link to stuttering. Carroll was born to parents who were first cousins; almost all of their eleven children, three girls and seven boys, struggled with stuttering past childhood.

John Melendez

He is a talented musician, actor, and comedian. Listen to a podcast.

Famous People Who Stutter