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

John Stossel

John Stossel is one of the most recognized and articulate reporters today. However, he once considered giving up his broadcasting career because of his stuttering.

“Fear of stuttering can easily become worse than the stuttering itself,” observed Stossel. “The idea that I’m on television and making speeches is still a shock to me sometimes.”

Bob Love

Bob Love has 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.

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.

John Melendez

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