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The World's First Female Speech Therapist

Charles Van Riper was renowned in the field of speech pathology. His wife, Catherine Jane “Katy” “C.J.” Hull Van Riper, was a pioneer in her own right.
One Size Does Not Fit All

John Stossel and Emily Blunt discuss their stuttering struggles and strategies.
The Legacy of King’s Speech Screenwriter David Seidler: “We have a voice. We have been heard.”

With profound sadness, we share news of the passing of David Seidler.
Winter Magazine

Check out letters and drawings from kids in this special edition. PLUS, we have new activity pages.
75 Must-Use Resources for the Stuttering Community

To continue our celebration of The Stuttering Foundation’s 75^th Anniversary, we offer our list of 75 critical resources.
Actions: Performance as the Muse of Fluency

For many years, I chose not to make music around my stutter because I didn’t understand it.
John Garfield

Hollywood's original method actor had an amazing and short career as a star. He had many impressive movie roles but his untimely death from a heart attack in 1952 at age 39 meant that his highly successful career was abruptly stopped in its tracks.
Do the Best with the Knowledge You Have

“Remember that you played the best you could with what you knew at the time." - Owen Knight Survivor 43 finalist
Help for Those Who Stutter is as Close as Your Local Library

For decades, The Stuttering Foundation has made its books and videos available for free to public libraries across the country.
Singers Share Their Stories

Stuttering Foundation sits down with Amanda Mammana from America's Got Talent and Marybeth Byrd from American Idol

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CELEBRITY FOCUS

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.

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.

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.

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.

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