Popular Book Now Available Free

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Jane Fraser
info@StutteringHelp.org
901-761-0343

MEMPHIS, TN (Dec. 10, 2019) - The Teacher Who Made a Difference is now available as a free e-book on The Stuttering Foundation's website, www.StutteringHelp.org.

This 32-page book by Corinne Litzenberg and illustrated by Amy L. Dech is a must-read for teachers, speech-language pathologists, and students!

A week before Earth Day, the school-wide poetry contest winners were announced at Corinne's school. Each grade level winner was going to read their poem aloud to the entire school. Corinne's poem won! Her teachers always said that she paints a picture when she writes with words. But, now she would have to read her poem aloud. How Corinne wanted to share her poem. Find out how she was able to overcome some of the challenges of stuttering with help from a special teacher who made a difference.

Teachers, parents, and students can download this free e-book by going to www.StutteringHelp.org/content/teacher.

About the Stuttering Foundation

Malcolm Fraser, a successful businessman who struggled with stuttering, established and endowed the nonprofit Stuttering Foundation in 1947. The Foundation provides free online resources at StutteringHelp.org for people who stutter and their families as well as support for research into the causes of stuttering. For more information, visit www.StutteringHelp.org.

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Bill Walton

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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.

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Mel Tillis

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Bob Love

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