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Speak Up, Speak Out, Stutter On!

By Eric, 14 years old

Valuable Lessons Played Out in Empowering Short Story “Speechless”

Ninth-grade student Elena, who stutters, took an English assignment opportunity and used her creative talents to present a short story about a group of classmates learning to face their fears, stand up for themselves and others, and discovering that being different is really the same for everyone.

Foundation Reminds Us "People Who Stutter Can Do Amazing Things”

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Stuttering Foundation Honors Four Courageous, Inspirational Authors

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When you get teased about your stuttering

An excerpt from the book Sometimes I Just Stutter

Children tease each other for many different reasons. A child who is taller than the others is sometimes teased. The same may happen to a child who is very short.

Golfers Drive Support for Stuttering

Tarver Family, Shelby Railroad Give Major Gift to Memphis’ Stuttering Foundation

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Photo caption: Kirk Tarver, vice president of Shelby Railroad, presents a donation to Donna White of the Stuttering Foundation on Sept. 18 at Wedgewood Golf Club. Download picture

Stuttering Foundation President Receives Honorary Fellowship from Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists

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One-Stop Shopping for Stuttering

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Free Teacher & Parent Resources for Back-to-School Days

Marathon Golfer Raises $2,600; Golfs 126 Holes in Support of the Stuttering Foundation

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Photo caption: Matthew Sander at the Ballyneal Golf Club in Holyoke, Colo., during the Hundred Hole Hike. Download picture

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CELEBRITY FOCUS

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.

Emily Blunt

Actress Emily Blunt struggled with stuttering early in her life. A teacher encouraged her to act in a school play at age 12 despite her stuttering.

Blunt’s name is prominently featured on the Stuttering Foundation's list of Famous People Who Stutter.

John Stossel

John Stossel is one of the most recognized and articulate reporters today. However, he once considered giving up his broadcasting career because of his stuttering.

“Fear of stuttering can easily become worse than the stuttering itself,” observed Stossel. “The idea that I’m on television and making speeches is still a shock to me sometimes.”

Byron Pitts

Byron Pitts has brought much attention to stuttering with his memoir, Step Out on Nothing: How Faith and Family Helped Me Conquer Life’s Challenges, released in September, 2009. The book not only details his speech difficulties, but also his illiteracy until age 12 and his unstable family life. Pitts overcame the odds to become the chief national correspondent with ABC News.

Winston Churchill

Seeking to "remove Winston Churchill's stutter by second guessing the diagnosis" indicates neither a truthful retelling of history nor an informed opinion about a complex speech disorder, say experts in the field of speech-language pathology.

Recent news reports that quote Dr. John Mather, a Washington physician, as saying that Churchill's stutter "is a lie" brought adamant critical response from specialists in the field of stuttering and fluency disorders.