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Season 6: Episode 15 — Preparing Adolescents Who Stutter for Life After High School Through Transition Planning
I KNOW WHAT TO SAY, BUT…

POETIC MEMOIR: A STUTTERER’S LAMENT
by Rose Cordero-Gonzales
Q&A with Jafnar Gueye

"You may not think it now, but your stuttering is truly a superpower... When someone tells me they stutter I automatically assume they have certain traits: toughness, resiliency, attentiveness, self awareness. I am yet to be wrong."
Q&A with Randy Curry

"I know that you are your worst judge. The way that people hear you speak is much better than you think it sounds."
Stuttering Didn’t Bench Bob Love

Love knew first-hand the experiences of someone who stutters. He overcame considerable frustrations and setbacks since his glory years with the Chicago Bulls.
Remembering Bob Love

It is with profound sadness we share the passing of NBA All-Star Bob Love.
Q&A with Coach Jeff Walz

"My stuttering has gotten better as I have gotten more confident in myself and less concerned about what others think. I have used my platform to let other stutterers know that anything is possible even with a stutter."
The Lore of Lord Stanley's Cup

Exploring hockey, history, and the skaters who stutter
Fall Magazine

Stuttering takes the stage when it comes to music history.
6 Ways Stuttering Foundation Changes Lives Through Global Outreach

October 22 marks International Stuttering Awareness Day (ISAD). Stuttering affects an estimated one percent of the world’s population—that’s more that 80 million people worldwide.

Archived Articles

CELEBRITY FOCUS

Bill Withers

While Bill Withers has long been on the Stuttering Foundation's list of Famous People Who Stutter, many people probably didn’t realize he stuttered. He passed away on March 30, 2020.

Born in 1938 in Slab Fork, W.V., Withers was the youngest of six children. When his father died when Withers was small, he was raised by his mother and grandmother, both of whom worked as domestics.

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.

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.

John Melendez

He is a talented musician, actor, and comedian. Listen to a podcast.

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