Referrals - South 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.

Dr. Charley Adams, CCC-SLP University of South Carolina Speech and Hearing Research Center 1224 Sumter St Ste 300 Columbia, SC 29201-3357 (803)777-2605 charley@sc.edu *Therapy typically conducted by students under the supervision of a certified speech language pathologist.	Mrs. Alice Anne G. Farley, M.Ed., CCC-SLP Speech Pathology Practice & Steps to Fluency 1000 Woodleaf Ct Columbia, SC 29212-0810 (803)407-0770 aagfarley@sc.rr.com www.colormefluent.com *Provides intensive and traditional therapy and workshops.
Ms. Barbara M. Guryan, M.C.D, CCC-SLP 10 Chateau Drive Greenville, SC 29615 (864)627-0265 (864)414-1516 bguryan@charter.net	Dr. Judith Martin, CCC-SLP 2031 Lyttleton Street Camden, SC 29020-2411 (803)432-6388 judhmar@aol.com
Ms. Caroline Pittard, M.S.,CCC-SLP Pittard Speech Services 132 Tyvola Drive Summerville, SC 29485 (843)270-7231 (843)879-3967 pittardspeech@yahoo.com www.pittardspeech.com	Ms. Wendy Wingard-Gay, M.S., CCC-SLP Chit Chat Fort Mill, SC 29715 (803)981-2755 wendywingardgay@gmail.com
Ms. Janice Wright, M.S.P, CCC-SLP 4669 Bowman Branch Highway Branchville, SC 29432 (803)274-8959 readnwright.jan@gmail.com

CELEBRITY FOCUS

King George

In November 2010, worldwide movie audiences were presented with a most interesting and unusual movie release with The King’s Speech, starring Colin Firth as King George VI and Helena Bonham Carter as his wife Elizabeth.

Unfortunately, history may have forgotten the courageous and inspiring story of Prince Albert who stuttered badly and never dreamed that he would ever be king when his older brother, King Edward VIII, abruptly abdicated the throne in 1936 to marry Wallis Simpson, an American divorcee.

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.

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.

Dave Taylor

Dave Taylor has been on the Stuttering Foundation's list of Famous People Who Stutter for many years, but probably few people know all of the unique accomplishments of this former hockey great who was born on December 4, 1955, in Levack, Ontario.

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.