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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.
Magazine Available Online

Find informative articles, the latest research in stuttering, interesting facts about famous people, letters and drawings from kids, and so much more in our latest edition.
New Resource Guide

Our 2022 Catalog has all of our latest resources.
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.

Archived Articles

CELEBRITY FOCUS

John Stossel

John Stossel is one of the most recognized and articulate reporters today. However, he once considered giving up his broadcasting career because of his stuttering.

"Fear of stuttering can easily become worse than the stuttering itself," observed Stossel. "The idea that I'm on television and making speeches is still a shock to me sometimes."

Darren Sproles

Darren Sproles, a former player for The Philadelphia Eagles, the New Orleans Saints and the San Diego Chargers, made history in 2007 when he became the first player in NFL history to return a kickoff and a punt for his first two NFL touchdowns in the same game. In 2021, he was selected to be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.

Marilyn Monroe

Born Norma Jeane Mortenson on June 1, 1926, Marilyn Monroe, according to Wikipedia, is known for playing comic "blonde bombshell" characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s. She was a top-billed actress for a decade, and her films grossed $200 million (equivalent to $2 billion in 2025) by her death in 1962.

Dave Taylor

Dave Taylor has been on the Stuttering Foundation's list of Famous People Who Stutter for many years, but probably few people know all of the unique accomplishments of this former hockey great who was born on December 4, 1955, in Levack, Ontario.

Bill Withers

While Bill Withers has long been on the Stuttering Foundation's list of Famous People Who Stutter, many people probably didn't realize he stuttered. He passed away on March 30, 2020.

Born in 1938 in Slab Fork, W.V., Withers was the youngest of six children. When his father died when Withers was small, he was raised by his mother and grandmother, both of whom worked as domestics.

Famous People Who Stutter