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Paperboy Takes the Stage

Vince Vawter's beloved book Paperboy is adapted for the stage, in the form of a musical, by the Manhattan School of Music.
Sidney Gottlieb: The Infamous Gentle-Hearted Torturer

While Gottlieb’s controversial career cannot be examined in full, his lifelong stuttering is no doubt of interest to the stuttering community.
Joacine Katar Moreira: Outspoken Political Activist and Stuttering Hero

As an elected member of the Assembly of the Republic from 2019 to 2022, she did not let her fractured speech hold her back from speaking before the Assembly.
True Experts, A Searchlight Solution: Sending Speech-Pathology Students on the Right Path, and Illuminating that Path

Drs. Ehud Yairi and Carol H. Seery unravel the intricacies of stuttering, step-by-step and methodically, on the clinical and personal level alike.
Q&A with Actor Eli Golden

The Netflix original movie 13: The Musical stars Eli Golden in his first lead role. The actor said he hopes showing off his singing and dance moves lands him on Broadway.
Celebrity Spotlight: Ed Sheeran

Ed Sheeran certainly hasn’t let his stuttering limit him in his career. The secret to his success? “Don’t be scared to be honest with yourself and with the people that love you.”
5 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Stuttering

Monday, May 8, marks the beginning of National Stuttering Awareness Week, a weeklong spotlight on the condition affecting more than 80 million people worldwide.
Remembering Howie

The Stuttering Foundation mourns the loss of our dear friend and colleague Howard (Howie) D. Schwartz, PhD, CCC-SLP.
Just Rose and That’s Good Enough

The most valuable lesson I have learned along my life’s journey is that I am good enough just the way I am.
Where Are They Now? An Update On Francy

It’s been 10 years since we first met singer Francois "Francy" Goudreault

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Bill Walton

From BillWalton.com

Thank you for your interest in my life long problem with my speech and communication skills. I was a very shy and reserved young man who could not speak at all without severely stuttering until I was 28 years old. Always a success in the classroom and on the basketball court, I took refuge in the things that I did well as a youngster. A straight A student, my athletic abilities covered the deficiencies that limited my overall growth and development. The game of basketball was my religion, the gym my church. It was a convenient way of avoiding my responsibilities of developing my human relation skills.

When I was 28, a chance encounter at a social event with Hall of Fame broadcaster Marty Glickman completely changed my life in so many ways that things have never been the same since, nor have they ever been better. That day, in a very brief, private conversation (one way, mind you, since I literally could not speak at the time) Marty explained, patiently and concisely, that talking, communicating was a skill not a gift or a birthright and that like any skill, whether it be sports, music, business or whatever, needed to be developed over a lifetime of hard work, discipline, organization and practice. Marty gave me some simple tips that day and then encouraged me to take those keys and apply them to methods of learning that I had received from the special teachers that I had come across in my life, particularly the 6 Hall of Fame basketball coaches that I had played for throughout my career. The beginning of my whole new life was as simple as that. No gimmicks, tricks or shortcuts. Just the realization that with some help, guidance and a lot of hard work that I too could do what seemed so easy, simple and natural to everyone else, yet seemed impossibly out of my reach and comprehension.

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.

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.

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.

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