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The Perfect Stutter
Author Paul H. Brocklehurst reveals how stuttering throws light on the human condition. He integrates lessons from his personal, often painful, experiences with spiritual and medical theory to gain control over stuttering.
Info Sent to Pediatricians Nationwide
Now in its 6th edition, The Child Who Stutters: To the Pediatrician is hot off the press and has been sent to every pediatrician in the country by the Stuttering Foundation.
New Year, New Opportunities!
Good News for Employers: According to speech experts, people who stutter, tend to show significantly above average care and perseverance in completing their workplace responsibilities.
Do You Stutter: A Guide for Teens
Now available in a new printing, the Stuttering Foundation’s Do You Stutter: A Guide For Teens explains to teenagers that, with the right approach, stuttering does not have to either encumber their present or undermine their future.
Advice to Those Who Stutter
Book has put stuttering into perspective for decades
All The Right Words: My Journey as a Sportswriter Who Stutters
Ryan Cowley’s book showcases the message the Stuttering Foundation wants to diffuse to all people who stutter—your stuttering doesn't have to stand in the way of your dreams.
Supporting Children Who Stutter
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Silent Starlet of the Silver Screen
Marion Davies was an American actor who was a popular movie star in the 1920s and particularly admired for her comedic talents on stage and screen.
Q&A with Dr. John Moss
Dr. Moss is a Pulmonary and Critical Care Physician at the Mayo Clinic Florida. He sat down with the Stuttering Foundation to discuss his many life and career successes along his lifelong journey with stuttering.
Magazine Available Online
Find informative articles, the latest research in stuttering, interesting facts about famous people, letters and drawings from kids, and so much more in our latest edition.

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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.

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.

Ken Venturi

As much of the nation watches the U.S. Open Golf Championship, it is impossible not to think about our late friend Ken Venturi. Ken overcame many challenges to win the Open at Congressional in 1964 and go on to become the voice of golf for more than three decades.

However, Ken faced no bigger obstacle than stuttering. Ken Venturi was a champion to those who stutter, going out of his way to share his personal experience when consulted by a colleague, friend, or child who stutters.

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.