Referrals - Connecticut | Stuttering Foundation: A Nonprofit Organization Helping Those Who Stutter

Listed below are the names of speech pathologists in your state who might be able to help you in treating stuttering. The Stuttering Foundation of America provides these names only to help in locating a speech pathologist who might be able to assist you in treating stuttering. The Stuttering Foundation of America does not warrant the competency of these speech pathologists nor guarantee their treatment.

This list is likely to include only a small number of the speech pathologists in your area and therefore might not include the names of all speech pathologists who might be able to assist you. No negative implication should be drawn about a particular speech pathologist's qualifications or competency if he or she is not included on this list.

If the individuals located below cannot assist you or are not located near you, the Stuttering Foundation of America encourages you to request a referral from them.

Ms. Paula E. Bacolini, M.S., CCC-SLP Glastonbury, CT 06033-1251 (860)918-1119 pbacolini@gmail.com BCS-F Mobile phone - can text	Ms. Jennifer Lewis Berkey, M.S., CCC-SLP Fairfield & Westport, CT (203)221-0007 jenniferslp@aol.com
Ms. Josephine K. Chen, M.S., CCC-SLP Center for Speech and Language Pathology 100 Melrose Ave Ste 201 Greenwich, CT 06830-6277 (203)869-8272 (203)869-8289 www.speechtherapyct.com *Also at 5 Mott Ave., Norwalk, CT 06850, (203) 857-0900	Ms. Ashley Kalosieh, M.A., CCC-SLP Speech Path, LLC 1053 Farmington Ave Ste H Farmington, CT 06032 (860)866-1817 ashley@speechpathslp.com www.speechpathslp.com
Ms. Janet Kane, M.S., CCC-SLP Early Childhood Center 755 Melville Ave Fairfield, CT 06825-2050 janetmkane@yahoo.com	Ms. Rachel N. Langberg, M.S., CCC-SLP 17 Danbury Rd Ridgefield, CT 06877-4027 (203)438-7869
Ms. Lynn E. Powell, M.S., CCC-SLP Glastonbury, CT 06033-2902 leeconway@cox.net	Dr. Arlyne E. Russo, CCC-SLP 1481 Fairfield Beach Road Fairfield, CT 06824-6520 (203)255-5604 (203)259-2687 www.aerusso.com
Dr. Robin Story, CCC-SLP 1258-3 Stillwater Road Stamford, CT 06902 (203)323-4242 rasslp@aol.com	Ms. Tara J. Turken, M.S., CCC-SLP Tara J. Turken, LLC PO Box 18 Avon, CT 06001-0018 (860)508-4586 taraturkenslp@hotmail.com

CELEBRITY FOCUS

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.

James Earl Jones

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

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 Walton

From BillWalton.com

Thank you for your interest in my life long problem with my speech and communication skills. I was a very shy and reserved young man who could not speak at all without severely stuttering until I was 28 years old. Always a success in the classroom and on the basketball court, I took refuge in the things that I did well as a youngster. A straight A student, my athletic abilities covered the deficiencies that limited my overall growth and development. The game of basketball was my religion, the gym my church. It was a convenient way of avoiding my responsibilities of developing my human relation skills.

When I was 28, a chance encounter at a social event with Hall of Fame broadcaster Marty Glickman completely changed my life in so many ways that things have never been the same since, nor have they ever been better. That day, in a very brief, private conversation (one way, mind you, since I literally could not speak at the time) Marty explained, patiently and concisely, that talking, communicating was a skill not a gift or a birthright and that like any skill, whether it be sports, music, business or whatever, needed to be developed over a lifetime of hard work, discipline, organization and practice. Marty gave me some simple tips that day and then encouraged me to take those keys and apply them to methods of learning that I had received from the special teachers that I had come across in my life, particularly the 6 Hall of Fame basketball coaches that I had played for throughout my career. The beginning of my whole new life was as simple as that. No gimmicks, tricks or shortcuts. Just the realization that with some help, guidance and a lot of hard work that I too could do what seemed so easy, simple and natural to everyone else, yet seemed impossibly out of my reach and comprehension.

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.