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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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.

John Melendez

He is a talented musician, actor, and comedian. Listen to a podcast.

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.

Marilyn Monroe

From Edward S. Herrington's letter to Southcoasttoday.com

I am writing in response to "The importance of voice" (May 29), which mentioned that famous actor James Earl Jones struggled with stuttering. Another famous voice that you cited was the trademark breathy voice of Marilyn Monroe; however, you did not make mention of the fact that Marilyn Monroe also struggled with stuttering at various points in her life, sometimes very painfully.