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One World, Many Voices

The inaugural Joint World Congress will be held July 13-16, 2018, in Hiroshima, Japan. Be sure to visit the Stuttering Foundation booth!

Workshop on Cluttering in Italy

There will be a workshop on cluttering with Yvonne Van Zaalen on Sept. 28-30, 2018, in Turin, Italy.

Stuttering Can't Stop You

It all started at the age of 6. My mother thought my speech pattern was due to me mimicking my cousin and brother, who had a stutter, too.

Stutter Love

The tale of “Austin and Shelly Forever” sounds like your typical vaguely romantic love story...

1965: Speech Pathology and Audiology Research Then and Now

This article was written by Dr. Charles Van Riper in 1965. Van Riper's research remains valuable and important to consider more than 50 years later.

On the Stage

For more than a year, celebrated author Vince Vawter has been collaborating with Jim Wann on a stage show that will be of great interest to the stuttering community — Paperboy: A Musical.

The Scale of My Stuttering

Glenn McClure traveled to Antarctica to study changes in the ice — and to use the data he collected in a new musical project, the latest in McClure's history of combining math, music, and nature.

Croatian

Mucam. Treba li mi logopedska terapija?!

6 savjeta za razgovor s osobom koja muca

8 savjeta za učitelje djece koja mucaju

Jeste li znali…

Celebrity Spotlight: Steve Harvey

While most of Steve Harvey's success stems from his skill at entertaining crowds, as a child his stutter made him terrified of speaking in front of audiences.

A Bright, Shiny Object

Research findings can sometimes serve as a bright, shiny object, distracting our attention from the methods of study.

Journey of the Jaguar

Long-time Stuttering Foundation friend Alan Rabinowitz is CEO of the only organization devoted exclusively to the conservation of the wild cat species.

A Creative Ally

Nino Ilievski is the creative genius behind the Stuttering Foundation's poignant public service ads.

Dr. Mother Goose

Teachers have intuitively known the secret for years: nursery and counting rhymes have an important place in the learning process.

To My Stutter

An open letter to a lifelong friend: For most of my life, you’ve been the friend I didn’t want, but couldn’t see my life without.

The Stanley Cup & Stuttering

Hockey player Bryan Rust has been a champion for stuttering, openly discussing his struggles with several media outlets.

Singing & Stuttering

Did you know that many famous singers who stutter began singing to overcome their stutter?

A Home Run for Stuttering

World Series MVP George Springer speaks out on his speech epiphany

Teen Shares Experience with Stuttering Therapy

"Fluency Program? Why is she looking at that? Where is this going? Did she find a technique?"

Facebook Makes Changes That Impact You

Want to continue seeing great Stuttering Foundation content? Here's how to keep up with Facebook’s changes.

Boy Teaches World It's OK to Stutter

10-year-old says it's OK to Stutter in his new documentary.

February 5, 2018

A Look Back

Vince Vawter, author of "Paperboy,” shared his personal messages to individuals who stutter, parents of children who stutter and speech clinicians.

Mom learned that Purdue University had a speech clinic and that it had sessions available to elementary and middle school students during the summer. Getting me to and from West Lafayette was solved: the Greyhound bus. This was why I rode Greyhound buses 80 miles one way, twice a day.

January 5, 2018

2017: The Year in Review

As 2018 begins, I take a look back at some of the pivotal moments over the Stuttering Foundation’s 70^th year in 2017.

The 2017 Joe Fulcher Award

The Michael Palin Centre for Stammering presented the 2017 Joe Fulcher Award to Chaye Foster on Dec. 13 in London. The award is named after Stuttering Foundation Board Member Joe Fulcher, who passed away on Oct. 6.

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CELEBRITY FOCUS

Bob Love

The late Bob Love 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.

Dave Taylor

Dave Taylor has been on the Stuttering Foundation's list of Famous People Who Stutter for many years, but probably few people know all of the unique accomplishments of this former hockey great who was born on December 4, 1955, in Levack, Ontario.

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.

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.

Bill Withers

While Bill Withers has long been on the Stuttering Foundation's list of Famous People Who Stutter, many people probably didn’t realize he stuttered. He passed away on March 30, 2020.

Born in 1938 in Slab Fork, W.V., Withers was the youngest of six children. When his father died when Withers was small, he was raised by his mother and grandmother, both of whom worked as domestics.