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Boris Karloff

He became famous for his high-profile role as Frankenstein in Frankenstein (1931), Bride of Frankenstein (1935) and Son of Frankenstein (1939).

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Stuttering Foundation Celebrates National Stuttering Awareness Week

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Contact:
Greg Wilson
greg@curleycompany.com
571-239-7474

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Camps and Clinics

Looking for a summer stuttering program? We have a list.

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The Mary E. Weadon Fund for Public Awareness

Mary E. Weadon was deeply involved in raising awareness of stuttering. Memorial gifts in her memory can be made in the following ways:

Mail a check in her memory to:
Stuttering Foundation of America
1805 Moriah Woods Boulevard, Suite 3
Memphis, TN 38117

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Remembering Jonathan Miller

He distinguished himself both as a medical doctor and an actor

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Fiberoptic Laryngoscopy Study On Two Males Who Stutter

Peter R, Ramig, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor
Fellow, American Speech, Language, Hearing Association
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309
And
Marshall E. Smith, M.D., Professor
University of Utah School of Medicine
501 S. Chipeta Way
Salt Lake City, UT 84108

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Salute to Pediatric Nurses

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Contact: Greg Wilson
greg@CurleyCompany.com
571-239-7474

Memphis, Tenn. (October 2, 2020) — October 5-9 is Pediatric Nurses Week. Within the stuttering community, parents' fear that a child is beginning to stutter is well known — and very real.

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Stuttering Foundation Corrects New York Times Errors About Stuttering with New Blog by Speech-Language Pathologist Katie Gore

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Contact: Greg Wilson
greg@CurleyCompany.com
571-239-7474

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Neurogenic Stuttering

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Social Distancing: 10 Tips for Better Communication

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CELEBRITY FOCUS

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.

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.

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.

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.

Famous People Who Stutter