Help for Those Who Stutter is as Close as Your Local Library

IN THE NEWS: New Film Available in 16,000 U.S. Libraries to Help Kids Who Stutter

As a trusted source of current and timely information on stuttering, our materials are as close as your nearest public library. For decades, The Stuttering Foundation has made its books and videos available for free to public libraries across the country.

Today, with help of the Foundation’s Information Specialist, Patty Reed, and the generosity of our benefactors, more than 16,000 libraries shelve our materials. Patty’s outreach by press release to newspapers helps spread the word to communities about materials available at their local library.

“More than three million Americans stutter, yet stuttering remains misunderstood by most people,” Stuttering Foundation’s Jane Fraser said. “Myths, such as believing people who stutter are less intelligent or suffer from psychological problems, still persist despite research refuting these erroneous beliefs.”

Stuttering Foundation books are directed to parents of children who stutter, adults who stutter, speech pathologists, pediatricians, family physicians, nurses, health care professionals, hospitals, schools, clinics, day-care centers, and all those concerned with the problem of stuttering.

If you find a library that doesn’t shelve our materials, ask them to submit a request.

"We are working hard to make our collection more diverse and to make materials available for underserved communities and communities with special needs. It is wonderful that you are making these materials available at no cost to public libraries. They will be fantastic additions to our collection."
-Director Arin Wilken, Alltoona Public Library, Altoona, WI

"I am very excited to receive the materials offered in your email. This subject is very dear to me, as my husband, who is now a minister, stuttered severely as a child, and now only occasionally. Thank you for any of these that you can provide. Thank you again for all you are doing!"
-Director Marcia Broady, Selby Township Library District, DePue, IL

" I am happy to spread the knowledge and assist families and individuals who deal with stuttering."
-Director Brittany Wallace, New Albin Public Library, New Albin, IA

From the 2023 Fall Magazine

CELEBRITY FOCUS

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.

John Melendez

He is a talented musician, actor, and comedian. Listen to a podcast.

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.

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.

Frank Wolf

This Virginian congressman has served in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1981. The longtime supporter of the Stuttering Foundation drew national attention to childhood stuttering in 2006 when he submitted an article about Tiger Woods from the SFA newsletter to the Congressional Record. The congressman is featured in the Stuttering Foundation's Famous People Who Stutter brochure.