NSSLHA Loves the SFA

The Stuttering Foundation is this year’s recipient of the student-led fundraising campaign organized each year by the National Student Speech Language Hearing Association. See donations below.

NSSLHA chapters' record-breaking gifts to the Stuttering Foundation. Thank you for your amazing support!

UC NSSLHA Chapter - $100.00
Northwestern University NSSLHA Chapter - $300
Nova Southeastern Univ. NSSLHA Chapter - $500
UNC-Chapel Hill, NSSLHA Chapter - $75
University of Nebraska NSSLHA Chapter - $100
Truman State University NSSLHA Chapter - $250
University of South Dakota NSSLHA Chapter - $500
Minnesota State University NSSLHA Chapter - $100
Edinboro Univ. of PA NSSLHA Chapter - $50
SUNY Cortland Speech & Hearing Club - $267.50
Lehman College – CUNY NSSLHA Chapter - $500
Utah State University - $20
Misericordia University NSSLHA Chapter - $500
Southeastern LA University NSSLHA Chapter - $100
University of Illinois – Urbana NSSLHA Chapter - $250
Marywood University – NSSLHA Chapter - $130
Fontbonne University – NSSLHA Chapter - $269.19
University of Arizona – NSSLHA Chapter - $400
Bowling Green State Univ. – NSSLHA Chapter - $150
Clarion University – NSSLHA Chapter - $150
San Diego State University – NSSLHA Chapter - $250
Illinois State University – NSSLHA Chapter - $200
Southern Illinois Univ. Edwardsville – NSSLHA Chapter - $1,676
Kansas State, KSSSLHA Chapter - $500
Eastern Washington Univ. – NSSLHA Chapter - $135
Univ. Central Missouri – NSSLHA Chapter - $500
University of Virginia – NSSLHA Chapter - $500.
Lamar University – NSSLHA Chapter - $250
Nicholls State University – NSSLHA Chapter - $25
University of Mississippi – NSSLHA Chapter - $577
Boston University – NSSLHA Chapter - $440
University of Cincinnati – NSSLHA Chapter - $500
UW Milwaukee – NSSLHA Chapter - $160
Mercy College – NSSLHA Chapter - $100
N.Y. Medical College – NSSLHA Chapter - $250
Univ. of New Hampshire – NSSLHA Chapter - $300
Calif. State Univ., San Marcos – NSSLHA Chapter - $250
SUNY Geneseo – NSSLHA Chapter - $450
California State University, Northridge – NSSLHA Chapter - $250
Chapman University – NSSLHA Chapter - $500
Univ. of Central Arkansas – NSSLHA Chapter - $250
University of Florida, Graduate Chapter – NSSLHA Chapter - $250
University of Louisville Class of 2012 – NSSLHA Chapter - $105
Southern Illinois University – Carbondale, NSSLHA Chapter - $500
Northern Illinois Univ. – NSSHLA Chapter - $150
Cal State Fullerton – NSSLHA Chapter - $500
Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania – NSSLHA Chapter - $500
Iona College – NSSLHA Chapter - $250
Ohio State University – NSSLHA Chapter - $100
CUNY Hunter College – NSSLHA Chapter - $450
University of Tennessee – NSSLHA Chapter - $200
William Paterson Univ. – NSSLHA Chapter - $1,134
Rush University – NSSLHA Chapter - $350
MGH Institute of Health Professions - NSSLHA Chapter - $250
Eastern Illinois University - NSSLHA Chapter - $500

-From the Summer 2011 Newsletter

CELEBRITY FOCUS

Darren Sproles

Darren Sproles, a former player for The Philadelphia Eagles, the New Orleans Saints and the San Diego Chargers, made history in 2007 when he became the first player in NFL history to return a kickoff and a punt for his first two NFL touchdowns in the same game. In 2021, he was selected to be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.

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.

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.

John Melendez

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

Carly Simon

Carly Simon began stuttering severely when she was eight years old.