Spanish Resources Expand

Stuttering Foundation resources continue to help people around the world. Recently, a few more books have been translated into other languages.

Daniela Jaramillo translated Treating the School-Age Child Who Stutters: A Guide for Clinicians into Spanish.

“It was great to see the translation. I sent another email to the translator with your thanks for her work. She is very pleased to collaborate with the noble work of the Foundation,” wrote Dr. César Burneo, who was Daniela’s professor at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador.

“Let me tell you that it was a genuine joy to help with the translation. Keep up your outstanding work on behalf of all those who stutter and their families,” he added.

Maria de la Paz Coral, also of Ecuador, translated Do You Stutter: A Guide for Teens in Spanish.

Spanish translations are available at www.tartamudez.org and www.StutteringHelp.org.

From the Winter 2013 Newsletter

CELEBRITY FOCUS

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.

Jack Paar

While Jack Paar is among the most prominent of the entertainers on the Stuttering Foundation’s list of Famous People Who Stutter, he deserves special recognition as he was among the first to openly address his stuttering in public. As host of The Tonight Show from 1957-1962, he spoke of his difficulties as a stuttering child and teenager, giving hope to young people.

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.

Marilyn Monroe

From Edward S. Herrington's letter to Southcoasttoday.com

I am writing in response to "The importance of voice" (May 29), which mentioned that famous actor James Earl Jones struggled with stuttering. Another famous voice that you cited was the trademark breathy voice of Marilyn Monroe; however, you did not make mention of the fact that Marilyn Monroe also struggled with stuttering at various points in her life, sometimes very painfully.

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.