| Stuttering Foundation: A Nonprofit Organization Helping Those Who Stutter

Meet Shalom Goodman

"I don’t like the term successful, since most people equate success with money. I feel that success is the constant struggle to do what is right."

Creed Bratton

When people who stutter watch The Office, they can take pride in knowing that this multi-talented individual is a fellow person who stutters.

Peggy Lipton: Hollywood Icon & Stuttering Pioneer

She was one of the first modern women celebrities who was open about her stuttering and a definite role model.

Most Exciting Thing in the Stuttering Community: Van Riper Tapes

While the recordings are several decades old, the ideas are anything but outdated.

What is Stuttering?

A Close Look at the Actual Speech Disruptions

Meet Mitch Guerra from Survivor

"You have to surround yourself with people who are going to encourage you to do the crazy things that no one thinks are possible."

Fall 2025 Magazine

Meet Mitch Guerra from Survivor, read letters from kids, and much more in our latest edition.

Brandon Kelly on George Springer: “He never, ever gave up”

"Don't let anybody or anything get in the way of who you are and who you want to be."

Remembering William P. "Bill" Murphy

He leaves a profound legacy for the stuttering community to treasure.

Achieving Successful Behaviour Change: Introducing a Systematic Method to Change Behaviour

Presented by Carmen LeFevre

"This was the best presentation of the principles of behavior change I have heard or read about in almost 50 years in the field." - SLP

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CELEBRITY FOCUS

This Virginian congressman has served in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1981. The longtime supporter of the Stuttering Foundation drew national attention to childhood stuttering in 2006 when he submitted an article about Tiger Woods from the SFA newsletter to the Congressional Record. The congressman is featured in the Stuttering Foundation's Famous People Who Stutter brochure.

Kenyon Martin

Kenyon Martin, the basketball sensation who was named to the NBA’s All Star Team in 2004, joins other famous people who stutter in a new brochure. The brochure - which unfolds into a small poster - is available free of charge from The Stuttering Foundation.

The poster is intended to give children and adults who stutter inspiration as they grapple with their speech disorder.

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.

Bob Love

The late Bob Love 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.

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.