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Singer Who Stutters Hits All the Right Notes on 'America's Got Talent'

Amanda Mammana gave an emotional audition when she sang a song she wrote herself on America's Got Talent.
A Goliath of Research Collected About Stuttering

Nan Bernstein Ratner and Shelley B. Brundage revive Oliver Bloodstein's seminal work with an innovative format and the latest research to guide the reader to the new "edge of our knowledge of stuttering."
Speech-Language Pathologists from Around the World Attend Intensive Workshop on Stuttering

Using Cognitive Approaches with People Who Stutter was held in Boston from June 13-17.
Q&A with Journalist Brian Fraga

Brian Fraga is an award-winning journalist and reporter from Massachusetts. He sat down with The Stuttering Foundation to discuss his many life and career successes, along his lifelong journey with stuttering.
Where Are They Now?

We caught up with some old friends to see how their careers have progressed since we first spoke seven years ago.
Jane Fraser's Presentation to the Eastern Workshop

This one-week course provides speech-language pathologists with an introduction to Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) and Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) in relation to the assessment and treatment of stuttering.
Gummo Marx

A comedy legend and Hollywood icon.
'GO AHEAD, I'M LISTENING'

New Google voice technology learns to recognize alternative speech patterns.
All The Right Words: My Journey as a Sportswriter Who Stutters

Ryan Cowley's All The Right Words: My Journey as a Sportswriter Who Stutters showcases the message the Stuttering Foundation wants to diffuse to all people who stutter—your stuttering does not have to stand in the way of your dreams.
Q&A with David Wong

David Wong is a dentist who specializes in periodontology and dental implant surgery. He sat down with the Stuttering Foundation to discuss his many life and career successes and a lifelong journey with stuttering.

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CELEBRITY FOCUS

Mel Tillis

Mel Tillis, born Lonnie Melvin Tillis, was an influential figure in country music, both as a songwriter and a performer. His journey to fame was marked by overcoming personal challenges, including a stutter that he turned into a defining part of his public persona.

Carly Simon

Carly Simon began stuttering severely when she was eight years old.

King George

In November 2010, worldwide movie audiences were presented with a most interesting and unusual movie release with The King's Speech, starring Colin Firth as King George VI and Helena Bonham Carter as his wife Elizabeth.

Unfortunately, history may have forgotten the courageous and inspiring story of Prince Albert who stuttered badly and never dreamed that he would ever be king when his older brother, King Edward VIII, abruptly abdicated the throne in 1936 to marry Wallis Simpson, an American divorcee.

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.

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.

Famous People Who Stutter