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The Stanley Cup & Stuttering

Hockey player Bryan Rust has been a champion for stuttering, openly discussing his struggles with several media outlets.
Singing & Stuttering

Did you know that many famous singers who stutter began singing to overcome their stutter?
A Home Run for Stuttering

World Series MVP George Springer speaks out on his speech epiphany
Teen Shares Experience with Stuttering Therapy

"Fluency Program? Why is she looking at that? Where is this going? Did she find a technique?"
Facebook Makes Changes That Impact You

Want to continue seeing great Stuttering Foundation content? Here's how to keep up with Facebook’s changes.
Boy Teaches World It's OK to Stutter

10-year-old says it's OK to Stutter in his new documentary.
Riding the Greyhound

Mom learned that Purdue University had a speech clinic and that it had sessions available to elementary and middle school students during the summer. Getting me to and from West Lafayette was solved: the Greyhound bus. This was why I rode Greyhound buses 80 miles one way, twice a day.
The 2017 Joe Fulcher Award

The Michael Palin Centre for Stammering presented the 2017 Joe Fulcher Award to Chaye Foster on Dec. 13 in London. The award is named after Stuttering Foundation Board Member Joe Fulcher, who passed away on Oct. 6.
Star Wars and Stuttering

Star Wars is one of the most successful film franchises ever.
Singing and Stuttering: What We Know

The passing of Mel Tillis has the country talking about singing and stuttering.

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CELEBRITY FOCUS

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.

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.

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.

Carly Simon

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

Marilyn Monroe

From Edward S. Herrington's letter to Southcoasttoday.com

I am writing in response to "The importance of voice" (May 29), which mentioned that famous actor James Earl Jones struggled with stuttering. Another famous voice that you cited was the trademark breathy voice of Marilyn Monroe; however, you did not make mention of the fact that Marilyn Monroe also struggled with stuttering at various points in her life, sometimes very painfully.

Famous People Who Stutter