Ask the Stuttering Foundation

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The Stuttering Foundation receives dozens of inquiries daily by telephone, email, and generated on our website.

People who stutter, parents of children who stutter, teachers, pediatricians, speech-language pathologists, journalists, and many others from all over the world reach out to the Stuttering Foundation to find help for themselves or others who stutter and to learn more about stuttering. Each inquiry is answered quickly and individually. Free or low-cost online resources, services, and support are offered from our many links, brochures, books, videos, and podcasts.

Some of the queries are more common such as parents who become concerned when their preschoolers begin to stutter, or people who stutter of any age reaching out to learn from others who also stutter. Some requests are less common such as pediatricians or speech-language pathologists looking for resources in less frequently spoken languages. Whatever the content, we respond to meet the needs of people who stutter around the globe.

Rather than answering one query at a time, we will use our Ask the Stuttering Foundation YouTube channel to share some the common questions we receive.

To ask a question, please email us at AskStutteringFoundation@stutteringhelp.org.

CELEBRITY FOCUS

John Melendez

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

Bob Love

Bob Love has 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.

Emily Blunt

Actress Emily Blunt struggled with stuttering early in her life. A teacher encouraged her to act in a school play at age 12 despite her stuttering.

Blunt’s name is prominently featured on the Stuttering Foundation's list of Famous People Who Stutter.

Kenyon Martin

Kenyon Martin, the basketball sensation who was named to the NBA’s All Star Team in 2004, joins other famous people who stutter in a new brochure. The brochure - which unfolds into a small poster - is available free of charge from The Stuttering Foundation.

The poster is intended to give children and adults who stutter inspiration as they grapple with their speech disorder.

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.