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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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.

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.

Jack Paar

While Jack Paar is among the most prominent of the entertainers on the Stuttering Foundation’s list of Famous People Who Stutter, he deserves special recognition as he was among the first to openly address his stuttering in public. As host of The Tonight Show from 1957-1962, he spoke of his difficulties as a stuttering child and teenager, giving hope to young people.

Winston Churchill

Seeking to "remove Winston Churchill's stutter by second guessing the diagnosis" indicates neither a truthful retelling of history nor an informed opinion about a complex speech disorder, say experts in the field of speech-language pathology.

Recent news reports that quote Dr. John Mather, a Washington physician, as saying that Churchill's stutter "is a lie" brought adamant critical response from specialists in the field of stuttering and fluency disorders.

Carly Simon

Carly Simon began stuttering severely when she was eight years old.