Excellent Reporting: Media Awards

Excellent Reporting Recognized

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For the 14th year, the Stuttering Foundation recognizes the importance of the media in raising awareness about stuttering and what can be done to help.

Stuttering Didn't Stop Bob Love

Stuttering Didn't Bench Bob Love

NBA All-Star Bob Love will lead the 2007 campaign for NationalStuttering Awareness Week, May 14-20.

Love knows first-hand the experiences of someone who stutters. Hehas overcome considerablefrustrations and setbacks since his gloryyears with the Chicago Bulls.

Donations - Malcom Fraser society

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Malcolm Fraser, founder
of the Stuttering Foundation.

The Malcolm Fraser Society

By Don Lineback
Furman University
and SFA Board Member

Alarming Statistics Show Training Urgently Needed

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.

An Almost Famous Singer (Rory Storm)


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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.

The Facts

The Foundation is turning its attention more and more to various facets of basic research.

Brain Research

Cluttering

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.

Address Teasing in the Schools

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.

Cuban Author Frequently Wrote About Stuttering

In June 1998, the English-speaking world was introduced for the first time to Cuban writer Calvert Casey, who had died in 1969 at the age of 45. Well known in the world of Latin American literature, 1998 marked the first time that his complete works were translated into English and published in one volume entitled Calvert Casey: The Collected Stories.

Bob Love Documentary

Documentary shares Bob Love's story

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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.

Fraser Wins National Award for Foundation

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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.

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