Referrals - New Jersey | 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. Michele Coogan, M.A., CCC-SLP MidState Therapy Associates 219 Taylor Mills Rd Ste 3 Manalapan, NJ 07726-3255 (732)431-5093 mic.coogan@gmail.com	Mrs. JoAnn G. Ficca, M.Ed., CCC-SLP Associates in Speech and Language 21 Benford Drive Princeton Junction, NJ 08550-1330 (609)799-2726 (609)799-7841 jficca@comcast.net
Ms. Delcie A. Halsey, M.A., CCC-SLP Manasquan, NJ (732)528-7861 (732)289-7520 halseyspeechlanguage@me.com *Board Certified Fluency Specialist	Ms. Diane Polledri, M.A., CCC-SLP Montclair State University Clinic Ctr for Audiology-Speech Lang Path 1515 Broad St Bloomfield, NJ 07003-3002 (973)655-6917 polledrid@mail.montclair.edu *Therapy typically conducted by students under the supervision of a certified speech language pathologist
Dr. Sheree Reese, CCC-SLP S & R Therapy Associates LLC 7 Ayers Ct Metuchen, NJ 08840-1171 (732)494-4514 sreese@kean.edu Board Certified Fluency Specialist Teens and adults	Ms. Linda Rembisz, M.A., CCC-SLP Speech Therapy Services Monmouth Therapy Associates 170 Ave at the Common Ste 1 Shrewsbury, NJ 07702 (732)741-8073 (732)741-6521 fax www.monmouththerapy.com
Ms. Emily L. Root, M.A., CCC-SLP Director of Speech Pathology Ped Speech Language & Learning Ctr 230 Sherman Ave Ste 7 Berkeley Heights, NJ 07922-1171 (908)790-9555 (908)790-1133 emlroot@gmail.com www.speechtherapynj.com	Dr. Kathleen Scaler Scott, CCC-SLP Flemington, NJ 08822 (908)303-7198 scalerscott3@gmail.com
Dr. Jim Tsiamtsiouris, CCC-SLP Dept of Communication Disorders William Paterson University 300 Pompton Rd Wayne, NJ 07470-2103 (201)240-1384 JimSpeech@gmail.com	Dr. Iris Weinhouse, CCC-SLP Hillsdale, NJ 07642-1130 (201)664-5195 Weinhouse36@hotmail.com

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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.

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.

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.

Darren Sproles

Darren Sproles, a former player for The Philadelphia Eagles, the New Orleans Saints and the San Diego Chargers, made history in 2007 when he became the first player in NFL history to return a kickoff and a punt for his first two NFL touchdowns in the same game. In 2021, he was selected to be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.