Australia's professional association for speech pathology has recently submitted a proposal to the Australian government seeking to provide Medicare reimbursement for only a single type of stuttering treatment, creating a "one-size-fits-all" policy for treating pre-school children who stutter.

Four years after winning an Oscar for his role as the monarch who stuttered in The King's Speech, Colin Firth launched a major fundraising campaign.

If press reports out of Cleveland are accurate, we must be very concerned about the chilling effect this sort of decision will have on the stuttering community...

This letter appeared in the New York Times on Dec. 21, 2014: As the president of the Stuttering Foundation, I was amazed at the omission, in the Nov. 23 review of James Booth's "Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Love," of Larkin's lifelong struggle with stuttering.