Mid-Atlantic Workshop Builds Confidence
In July, the Stuttering Foundation of America, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), and The Florida State University co-sponsored the fourth Mid-Atlantic Workshop, Treating Children and Adolescents Who Stutter, in Philadelphia.14th Boston Workshop Earns A+
Since 1985, the Stuttering Foundation has conducted intensive summer workshops in order to increase the pool of speech-language pathologists trained in the latest techniques for the treatment of stuttering. This summer was no exception.15th International Stuttering Awareness Day Online Conference
The 15th International Stuttering Awareness Day Online Conference, A Voice and Something to Say, will start Oct. 1, 2012.
Longtime SFA Supporter Edward Rondthaler Dies at 104
Edward Rondthaler was one of the 20th century’s foremost men of letters – actual physical audible letters. An outspoken advocate of spelling reform, he spent decades trying to impose order on his 26 lawless charges. As a noted typographer who first plied his trade 99 years ago, he helped bring the art of typesetting from the age of hot metal into the modern era – and he was a person who stuttered.
Advances in Our Understanding of Adult Neurogenic Stuttering
By Luc De Nil, Ph.D., and Catherine Theys, M.Sc.Stuttering Foundation Encouraged by Neurology Study
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (Aug. 8, 2012) — The Stuttering Foundation responds to a new study published in the August 8th online issue of Neurology, “Neural anomaly and reorganization in speakers who stutter:”
James Campbell Stuttering Memorial
Please read the entire page in honor of James.
Memorial gifts in memory and in honor of James Michael Campbell can be made in the following ways:
Mail a check in his memory to:
Stuttering Foundation of America
1805 Moriah Woods Boulevard, Suite 3
Memphis, TN 38117New Doors Open for Kids Who Stutter
Malcolm Fraser Honored
Stuttering Foundation President Jane Fraser and Vice-President Joe Fulcher joined therapists, supporters, and trustees of the Association for Research into Stammering in Childhood, ARSC, and staff of the Michael Palin Centre on Sept. 20 to celebrate the opening of the newly-refurbished facility, which includes a high-tech room named for Malcolm Fraser.
Shelby Railroad Remains Reliable Friend
Kirk and John Tarver and their Memphis-based Shelby Railroad Service Inc. raised a record $7,800 to help those who stutter at their Annual Tin Cup Tournament and Bar-B-Que held October 6 at the Wedgewood Golf Club in Olive Branch, Miss.
How Mom and Stuttering Helped Me
By Bill Leinweber