Five Myths About Stuttering
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Malcolm Hough Fraser
1903-1994
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The book Self-Therapy for the Stutterer by Malcolm Fraser continues to help people around the world.
A dismaying number of speech-language pathologists have little training in fluency disorders, according to a recent survey of 255 school speech-language pathologists from 16 counties in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut and Virginia. The survey comprised of 49 questions was conducted by Glen Tellis, Ph.D., and his colleagues at College Misericordia, Dallas, Pa.
While the SFA's Web site list of Famous People Who Stutter includes many high-profile names, we like to think that every person who stutters is unique in their own right.
Brain Research
B.B. King
Like stuttering, cluttering is a fluency disorder, but the two disorders are not the same. Cluttering involves excessive breaks in the normal flow of speech that seem to result from disorganized speech planning, talking too fast or in spurts, or simply being unsure of what one wants to say. By contrast, the person who stutters typically knows exactly what he or she wants to say but is temporarily unable to say it. To make matters even more confusing, since cluttering is not well known, many who clutter are described by themselves or others as "stuttering." Also, and equally confusing, cluttering often occurs along with stuttering.
The teasing that hurts all children is doubly hurtful to those who stutter.
Teachers can help by addressing both teasing and stuttering at the beginning of the school year following expert advice in a new brochure published by the Stuttering Foundation.
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Bob Love has 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.
Introduction
Ponjit Jithavech has translated three of the Stuttering Foundation's flyers.
With 1.4 million nonprofits in this country to choose from, the NonProfit Times named Jane Fraser, the president of the Stuttering Foundation, Executive of the Year for 2007.
An interview with Travis Kruck
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Kids who stutter have a lot to say, and friends can show them how in Stuttering: For Kids By Kids, a new DVD starring real kids who stutter.
New help for stuttering: Complex disorder devastating for preschoolers and parents.
A Special Lifetime Achievement Media Award goes to public
relations executive Michael Sheehan, who dealt effectively with his
stuttering and became one of the best-known communications experts in
the country.
His story was chronicled by Jennifer Reingold in Fast Company
magazine.
By Diane Parris, M.S.
Boston University
“In order to be a growing professional, we need to be always on the fringe of our incompetency,” that is to say we always need to be pushing ourselves to our limits of competence in order to learn new skills at higher levels.