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 (301)405-4217 (301)314-2023 Fax 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, BCS-F 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 ASHA Fellow Board Certified Specialist in Fluency Disorders
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.

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.

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