Referrals - Utah | 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. Martina Herte Costello, M.S., CCC-SLP 1181 Foxcrest Drive Park City, UT 84098 (435)602-2674	Ms. Ann Dorais, M.A., CCC-SLP A+ Speech Therapy 1379 S 740 E Orem, UT 84097-8083 (801)422-5993 (801)372-4383 adorais159@gmail.com
Ms. Maria Gurrister, M.S., CCC-SLP Wasatch Speech and Language Center 2120 E. 3900 So., Ste 200 Holladay, UT 84124 (801)308-0400 (801)308-0401 srg@unh.edu Web Site	Mr. Tom Gurrister, M.S., CCC-SLP Wasatch Speech and Language Center 2120 East 3900 South, Ste 200 Holladay, UT 84124 (801)308-0400 (801)308-0401 tgurrister@aol.com www.stutteringinfo.com
Ms. Janet Kirsh, M.S., CCC-SLP Assistant Professor (Clinical) University of Utah Speech and Hearing Clinic 417 S Wakara Way Ste 1112 Salt Lake City, UT 84108-1448 (801)581-3506 (801)581-7955 Janet.Goldstein@hsc.utah.edu *Therapy typically conducted by students under the supervision of a certified speech language pathologist

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Alan Rabinowitz

Alan Rabinowitz, Ph.D., who passed away in 2018, was an explorer, wildlife conservationist, and author. He established the Hukawng Valley Tiger Reserve in northern Myanmar, which is about the size of the state of Vermont.

His love for animals began when he was very young.

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.

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.

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.