Referrals - North Carolina | 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. Sandie Barrie Blackley, CCC-SLP The Language & Learning Clinic 1919 North Bridge St Elkin, NC 28621-2105 (336)835-7337 sbblackley@gmail.com	Mr. Chagit Edery Clark, CCC-SLP Beyond Fluency Arden, NC 28704-9588 (718)781-6758 EderyClarkSLP@gmail.com
Ms. Sarah Henry Donnelly, M.A., CCC-SLP Asheville Speech Associates 1063 Haywood Rd Asheville, NC 28806-2650 (828)285-8814 sarah.henry@bcsemail.org www.ashevillespeech.com	Ms. Gina Dwyer-Urban, M.A., CCC-SLP 5208 Marcella Ct Durham, NC 27707-9808 (804)513-3043 gina.urban.slp@gmail.com
Ms. Lynn M. Fox, M.Ed., CCC-SLP UNC Craniofacial Team Campus Box 7450 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7450 (919)537-3509 (919)537-3554 lynn_fox@unc.edu	Ms. Laura Graham, M.S., CCC-SLP Wilson, NC 27896 lgrahamslp@hotmail.com
Dr. Joe Klein, CCC-SLP Appalachian State University Boone, NC (828)262-2620 kleinjf@appstate.edu	Ms. Sally Pidge, M.Ed.,CCC-SLP Achieve Therapy Services 2301 Crownpoint Executive Dr Ste E Charlotte, NC 28227-6725 (704)708-8314 (704)708-8315 www.achievetherapyclinic.com
Mr. Peter M. Reitzes, M.A., CCC-SLP Chapel Hill, NC (919)475-1529 preitzes@yahoo.com	Dr. David A. Shapiro, CCC-SLP Communication Sciences & Disorders Western Carolina University 4121 Little Savannah Rd, 188 Hlth & Human Sciences Cullowhee, NC 28723 (828)227-3291 (828)227-7456 shapiro@email.wcu.edu
Ms. Rita D. Thurman, M.S.,CCC-SLP Speech & Language Therapy Associates 3700 National Drive, Suite 206 Raleigh, NC 27612-4842 (919)571-0622 (919)800-3365 FAX thurmanrita@gmail.com BCS-FD (Board Certified Specialist in Fluency) Board Member of the American Board of Fluency and Fluency Disorders

CELEBRITY FOCUS

Byron Pitts

Byron Pitts has brought much attention to stuttering with his memoir, Step Out on Nothing: How Faith and Family Helped Me Conquer Life’s Challenges, released in September, 2009. The book not only details his speech difficulties, but also his illiteracy until age 12 and his unstable family life. Pitts overcame the odds to become the chief national correspondent with ABC News.

Ken Venturi

As much of the nation watches the U.S. Open Golf Championship, it is impossible not to think about our late friend Ken Venturi. Ken overcame many challenges to win the Open at Congressional in 1964 and go on to become the voice of golf for more than three decades.

However, Ken faced no bigger obstacle than stuttering. Ken Venturi was a champion to those who stutter, going out of his way to share his personal experience when consulted by a colleague, friend, or child who stutters.

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.

Kenyon Martin

Kenyon Martin, the basketball sensation who was named to the NBA’s All Star Team in 2004, joins other famous people who stutter in a new brochure. The brochure - which unfolds into a small poster - is available free of charge from The Stuttering Foundation.

The poster is intended to give children and adults who stutter inspiration as they grapple with their speech disorder.

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.