Referrals - Maryland | 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. Amy J. Clayman, M.A., CCC-SLP KidSpeak Speech & Language Therapy 7704 Granada Dr Bethesda, MD 20817-6608 (301)246-3330 (301)841-7979 amy@kidspeaktherapy.com www.kidspeaktherapy.com	Dr. Stuart Diener, CCC-SLP 3405 Old Forest Road Baltimore, MD 21208 (443)465-6733 *Will accept patients 13 years and older
Ms. Brett Alice Kluetz, M.A., CCC-SLP Kensington, MD 20895 (410)274-1205 brettkluetz@icloud.com *close to Washington D.C. area	Dr. Mark Pellowski, CCC-SLP Professor Dept AUD/SLP/DFST Towson University Towson, MD 21252-0001 (410)704-5899 mpellowski@towson.edu *also serving Southern York County (PA)
Dr. Nan Bernstein Ratner, CCC-SLP 7025 Wilson Ln Bethesda, MD 20817-4946 (301)405-4217 (301)314-2023 nratner@umd.edu www.hesp.umd.edu *Therapy typically conducted by students under the supervision of a certified speech language pathologist	Dr. Robert Scherr, CCC-SLP Medical Center Ste 8 105 Pine Bluff Rd Salisbury, MD 21801-7160 (410)749-7804 bob4speech@aol.com
Ms. Vivian Sisskin, M.S., CCC-SLP Dept of Hearing & Speech Sciences University of Maryland 0100 Lefrak Hall College Park, MD 20742-0001 (301)405-4232 vsisskin@umd.edu www.sisskinstutteringcenter.com * Therapy conducted by graduate students under the supervision of Sisskin * Group and individual therapy also available at the Sisskin Stuttering Center in McLean, VA	Mr. John M. Sloan, M.S., CCC-SLP Director, The Center for Fluency Enhancement The Hearing & Speech Agency-Baltimore 5900 Metro Dr Baltimore, MD 21215-3207 (410)318-6780 jsloan@hasa.org www.hasa.org Board Certified Fluency Specialist Fellow/ASHA

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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.

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.

Byron Pitts

Byron Pitts has brought much attention to stuttering with his memoir, Step Out on Nothing: How Faith and Family Helped Me Conquer Life’s Challenges, released in September, 2009. The book not only details his speech difficulties, but also his illiteracy until age 12 and his unstable family life. Pitts overcame the odds to become the chief national correspondent with ABC News.

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.

Emily Blunt

Actress Emily Blunt struggled with stuttering early in her life. A teacher encouraged her to act in a school play at age 12 despite her stuttering.

Blunt’s name is prominently featured on the Stuttering Foundation's list of Famous People Who Stutter.

Lewis Carroll

The recent Disney version of Lewis Carroll’s classic, Alice in Wonderland, garnered a great deal of media hype. Even though the mainstream media has not made mention that Carroll was a person who stuttered, his family history gives credence to the discovery of the genetic link to stuttering. Carroll was born to parents who were first cousins; almost all of their eleven children, three girls and seven boys, struggled with stuttering past childhood.