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Other Fluency Challenges and Stuttering Plus

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E. OTHER FLUENCY CHALLENGES AND STUTTERING PLUS

1. Cluttering

RESOURCES:

Streaming Videos:

Cluttering* (Florence Myers and Kenneth St. Louis)

Cluttering: Another Look* (Kathleen Scaler Scott)

The Lived Experience of People with Cluttering: Applying What We Know to Clinical Practice (Kathleen Scaler Scott)

Cluttering: Shared Experiences from the Adult, Child, and Family Member Perspective (Kathleen Scaler Scott)

2. ADHD

RESOURCES:

Streaming Videos:

Accounting for the Impact of Co-Existing ADHD on Children Who Stutter* (Joseph Donaher)

The Role of Attention in Therapy for Stuttering* (Jane Harley)

3. Autism

RESOURCES:

Streaming Video:

Autism Spectrum Disorders and Stuttering* (Vivian Sisskin)

4. Atypical Disfluencies

RESOURCES:

Ask the Stuttering Foundation Video:

Atypical disfluencies: Is it stuttering or something else? (Ellen Kelly)

5. Multilingualism and Stuttering

RESOURCES:

Streaming Videos:

Bilingualism and Stuttering, Blurred Lines: Typical Versus Clinical Speech Disfluency* (Courtney Byrd)

6. Multiple Concomitant Diagnoses

RESOURCES:

Streaming Video:

Fluency Plus: Cases for Understanding Clients with Fluency Disorders and Concomitant Diagnoses* (Kathleen Scaler Scott)

F. ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

Books:

Sometimes I Just Stutter (ages 7-12)

The Teacher Who Made a Difference (Corinne Litzenberg and Amy L. Dech)

Wendi’s Magical Voice (Brit Kohls)

Two Penguins and a Treasure to Be Discovered (Mariela Ginhson and Maria Marta Gebara) [English or Spanish]

A Stutterer’s Story: An Autobiography [English] Historia de un Tartamudo [Spanish] (Frederick P. Murray)

Streaming Video Re: Books:

Q&A with Vince Vawter, Author of ‘Paperboy’

With Our Own Words: A Panel Discussion Featuring Authors Who Stutter and their Memoirs (Christopher Anderson, John Hendrickson, Katherine Preston, and Vince Vawter)

Podcasts Re: Books:

Every Waking Moment (Christopher Anderson)

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CELEBRITY FOCUS

Bruce Willis

While the world knows Bruce Willis as an A-list actor, few know that he struggled with stuttering throughout his first 20 years.

Walter Bruce Willis was born in 1955 in West Germany to his German mother, Marlene, and his American GI father, David Willis. The family settled in David’s hometown of Penns Grove, New Jersey in 1957, and the couple has three other children.

Mel Tillis

Mel Tillis, born Lonnie Melvin Tillis, was an influential figure in country music, both as a songwriter and a performer. His journey to fame was marked by overcoming personal challenges, including a stutter that he turned into a defining part of his public persona.

John Melendez

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

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.

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.

Famous People Who Stutter