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Ehud Yairi, Ph.D. University of Illinois

With few exceptions, every en-tity in the universe can find itsplace within a system of classifi-cation. Thesehave an impor-tant role in theorganization andenhancement ofk n o w l e d g e .Although certainfeatures of stut-tering are rela-tively consistent,such as the ageat onset of thedisorder and the presence of cer-tain core speech disfluencies,there are large differences inmany aspects of the disorderacross people who stutter, includ-ing variations in expression ofsymptoms and their severity.

In addition to symptom diver-sity, in many ways the disorderof stuttering is interwoven withlinguistic, phonetic, cognitive,social, emotional, physiologicaldomains, as well as other do-mains. It has also been explainedas emerging from a wide rangeof possible etiologies. Still, for a

NBA All-Star Bob Love will leadthe 2007 campaign for NationalStuttering Awareness Week, May14-20.

Love knows first-hand the experi-ences of someone who stutters. Hehas overcome considerable frustra-tions and setbacks since his gloryyears with the Chicago Bulls.

“Bob is more than a great basket-ball star and community leader,” saidJane Fraser, president of the 60-year-old Stuttering Foundation. “He waschosen to serve as chairman becausehis courage in coping with his speechimpediment serves as an excellentrole model for the millions of peopleworldwide who stutter.”

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Is stutteringcharacterized by subtypes?

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THE STUTTERING FOUNDATION

Stutteringdidn’t benchBob Love

A Nonprofit Organization Since 1947... Helping Those Who StutterSUMMER 2007

NBA All-Star leads2007 campaign

FACTS ABOUT BOB LOVESeasons with the Bulls:1968-1977Jersey number: 10Jersey retired: Jan. 14, 1994Career highlights:

NBA All-Star 1971, 1972,1973All-NBA Second Team 1970-71, 1971-72NBA All-Defensive Second Team 1971-72, 1973-74, 1974-75Led the Bulls in scoring for seven straight seasonsRanks third among Bulls all-time scorers (12,623points)Currently serves as the Bulls director of community affairs.

Source: www.nba.com

Photo courtesy of the Chicago Bulls

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By Dennis Drayna, Ph.D.NIDCD

A study by researchers in Illinoishas recently beenpublished thatprovides new sup-port for geneticfactors in stutter-ing. The re-searchers were ledby Dr. Nancy J.Cox at theUniversity ofChicago, and thestudy, published in the Journal ofFluency Disorders, had major con-tributions from researchers at theUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University ofIllinois at Chicago.

These investigators studied areligious group known as theHutterites, currently living inSouth Dakota. The group ofHutterites that were studied aremembers of a remarkable family

tree that contains over 1600 indi-viduals, and can be traced back13 generations. At the roots ofthis family tree are a group of 64founding individuals, who cameto the United States from Europein the 1800’s and settled in theNorthern United States. Theirdescendents have intermarriedextensively over time, and suchpopulations often provide uniqueinsights for geneticists.

The Illinois researchers testedgenetic markers, which allowedthem to track all of the chromo-somes inherited through thesefamilies. These marker studiesshowed regions on several chro-mosomes, including chromo-somes 3, 13, and 15 that appear tocarry genes that help cause stutter-ing in this population. These re-sults will help guide future studiesthat will attempt to identify thespecific causative genes, and thushelp researchers better understandthe causes of stuttering. ❑

As seen on the screen, Dr. PhillipSchneider represented the SFA todiscuss how to react when speakingwith someone who stutters and thepros and cons of a device for stutter-ing on ABC News Now in January.

ABC News linked to the StutteringFoundation as a source of additionalhelp and information.

View the interview at www.stut-teringhelp.org. ❑

Dennis Drayna, Ph.D.

Studies in a unique community givenew genetic insights into stuttering

Stuttering makes national news

The new year ushered in a newradio campaign by the StutteringFoundation.

This year, the Foundation sentpublic service announcements fea-turing country music singer MelTillis to everycountry musicstation in theUnited States.

“Our radioPSAs have cer-tainly resonatedwith listeners.The response hasbeen tremen-dous,” said Susie Hall, resourcecoordinator for the StutteringFoundation. “We have receivedcalls from people across the coun-try seeking more information onstuttering.”

Foundation President JaneFraser added,“We look for-ward to being aleading source ofcontinuing pub-lic educationthrough PSAsand through allaspects of ourcomprehensiveawareness campaign. And we in-vite others to join us in bringingattention to stuttering.”

Last fall, the 30-second spotrecorded by 20/20’s JohnStossel went out to ABC radiostations nationwide. Many con-tinue to air John’s upbeat mes-sage about where and how tofind help for stuttering.

“This educational campaignhas been a wonderful way toreach people who otherwisemay be unfamiliar with the helpwe offer,” said Fraser. “Theradio stations have been mostgenerous in providing air time.”

SFA launches newpublic service

campaign

Tillis educates public

Mel Tillis

John Stossel

Help for parents airs around the countryBobbi Conner, host of The Parents

Journal on NationalPublic Radio, spoke withFoundation PresidentJane Fraser about child-hood stuttering.

“The more youknow about stuttering,the more comfortableyou are,” Fraser told parents.“The more comfortable you are,

the better it is for children whostutter.”

She emphasized that par-ents need to take the timeto educate themselvesabout stuttering and sug-gested many of the free re-sources — including tipsfor parents — available at

the Foundation’s Web site,www.stutteringhelp.org. ❑

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Annual Audit of Foundation

Funds expended for:Creation, production, printing and distribution

of educational materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . $509,589 . . . . .39.7%Public information and education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339,594 . . . . . 26.5%Educational symposia for professionals and research . . . 170,451 . . . . . 13.3%Therapy program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 127,428 . . . . . .9.9%Maintain Web site and toll-free information hotline. . . . . . . 79,444 . . . . . . 6.2%Total for Program Services: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,226,506 . . . . . 95.6%Other expenditures:

Administration and general . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48,326 . . . . . . 3.8.%Fund-raising expense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8,273 . . . . . . 0.6%

Total Expenditures: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$1,283,105 . . . . . .100%

The annual audit of the Stuttering Foundationfinancial reports for 2006 was recently com-pleted by the accounting firm of Cannon andCompany, Certified Public Accountants,Memphis, Tenn. Following is a recap of fundsand expenditures for the year.

The 3.8% of expenditures for administrationand general expenses and the 6/10 of 1% for

fund raising are very low, and since we are for-tunate to have an endowment which more thancovers our overhead expenses, donors can beassured that their gifts will go directly to sup-port our program services.

The Foundation is a private operating founda-tion which expends its funds on its own programsand does not make grants to other institutions.

Gerald A. Maguire, M.D.University of California, Irvine School of Medicine

A medication for stuttering?This question has plagued clini-cians for years with the generalconsensus that it could never beattained. With advancements inneuropharmacology, medical sci-ence is now closer than ever in thedevelopment of medication treat-ment for stuttering.

In the last ten years, studies sug-gest that dopamine-blocking med-ications are effective in reducingstuttering symptoms.

These studies employed thegold-standard of being placebo-controlled and double-blind(meaning that the subjects andclinicians did not know if the spe-cific individuals were receiving areal pill or a fake pill).

These studies were of relativelylimited subject size so further re-search is warranted before thesemedications are to be routinelyused in stuttering.

No one medication is withoutthe potential of side-effects andthis class of medication is associ-ated with weight gain and the po-tential for blood sugar increases.

However, a novel medication,pagoclone, holds promise as aneffective, well-tolerated medi-cation for the treatment of stut-

tering.Pagoclone is a medication under

development from IndevusPharmaceuticals.

In May 2006, Indevus releasedresults of thelargest pharma-cologic trial ofstuttering everc o m p l e t e d .Pagoclone af-fects a naturalneurochemical inthe brain knownas GABA whichhas been postu-lated to play asignificant role in stuttering.

The study utilized a double-blind, randomized design ofover 130 adult individuals whostutter. Pagoclone was found toimprove stuttering symptoms inover 50 percent of the individu-als treated—statistically greaterthan those receiving a placebo.

Pagoclone was found to bewell-tolerated with only minorside-effects of headache and fa-tigue reported in a minority ofthose treated.

In this study, pagoclone notonly improved the fluency ofspeech but also reduced the so-cial anxiety that often accompa-nies stuttering.

More studies of this compound

are being planned, and Indevusis working closely with the Foodand Drug Administration (FDA)to achieve approval so that thismedication may one day be rou-tinely available from a physi-cian’s prescription.

For the time being, it is onlyavailable as part of a researchstudy. The next study of pago-clone will begin this summer, andone can learn more by accessingwww.stutteringstudy.com.

In addition, the University ofCalifornia, Irvine, has received agenerous gift from the philan-thropists, Granville and SidneyKirkup, which will support furtherresearch on the medical treatmentof stuttering.

The University of California,Irvine will participate as a site inthe pagoclone study, but willalso be investigating other med-ications for the treatment of stut-tering as well.

For further information, pleasee-mail [email protected].

❑Even though medications for

stuttering may be on the hori-zon, no form of therapy for stut-tering is a cure. Therefore, fu-ture treatment will likely involvethe combination of medicationwith speech therapy to achievethe optimal results. ❑

New drugs for stuttering may be on the horizon

Gerald Maguire, M.D.

With National StutteringAwareness Week May 14-20,now is the perfect time to orderposters, books, brochures, DVDs,and even T-shirts to spread theword about stuttering. ❑

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It seems to be spreading. Butthat’s a good thing in this case.

The Stuttering Foundation’spublic service ads are popping upnearly everywhere you look.

While SFA public service adshave been found in magazinesfor years, newspapers are nowstarting to jointhe cause.

Newsday ofLong Island,N.Y, and theNew York Posthave run theFoundation’sads severaltimes.

P l u s ,N e w s w e e k ,Time, ESPN,Cosmopolitan,Cosmo Girl, New York, AARP,Seventeen and Ladies HomeJournal have all generously donat-ed space to help spread the news tomillions of readers about stuttering.Good Housekeeping even ran thePSAs two months in a row!

Among those featured in theads are 20/20 co-anchor JohnStossel, basketball legend Bob

Love, conservationist AlanRabinowitz, Winston Churchill,TV star Nick Brendon and coun-try music singer Mel Tillis.

PSAs provide a unique way toreach those who otherwise maynot be familiar with the helpavailable for stuttering.

Combined,these publica-tions reachmore than 60million readers.

The SFA pro-vides publica-tions with sev-eral sizes andchoices of pub-lic service ads. This year, the

F o u n d a t i o nalso designed

the PSAs using new computersoftware. This assures the PSAsare compatible with every com-puter system.

The newspaper and magazinePSAs are in addition to the radioannouncements and online adsprovided free by Google Grants.

Next time you read a newspaperor magazine, be on the lookout. ❑

Memphis-based Shelby RailroadServices Inc. donated an amazing$3,854 on Nov. 2 to the StutteringFoundation following the compa-ny’s annual Tin-Cup Tournament.

The Stuttering Foundation wasselected in honor of RuthMcGuinness Tarver, the late moth-er of company president andfounder John Tarver. Ruth stutteredfrom the time she was a youngchild, said Kirk Tarver, the compa-ny’s vice president and John’s son.

“She was a great lady,” Kirksaid. “It didn’t matter to us, but itembarrassed her. Back in the‘30s, there wasn’t any help.”

“On behalf of the StutteringFoundation, I would like to thankeveryone who donated to thisworthwhile cause, to John and Kirk

Tarver, and to Shelby RailroadServices,” Fraser said during theevent. “I am thrilled to receive thistremendous gift. This is a wonderfultribute to Ruth McGuinness Tarverand also to the good work thatShelby Railroad Services does.”

This was the fifth year ShelbyRailroad teamed with theFoundation to make a differencefor children who stutter. ❑

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John and Kirk Tarver stand with JaneFraser during the golf outing.

Papers, magazines spread the word

Putts benefit excellent causeOur readers will be saddened to

learn that Elisabeth Versteegh passedaway on March 9,2007, at her home inGeldermalsen, TheNetherlands. Shewould have been 90on Aug. 17.

Els, as she wasknown, was recog-nized as one of theleading speech therapists in theworld.

“I met Els by chance in 1981,”said Jane Fraser, SFA president.“Her niece, Betty Vermey, Dean ofAdmissions at Bryn Mawr College,stayed at my home overnight andheaded to Geldermalsen the nextday to visit Els. When I mentionedmy interest in stuttering, Bettyquickly said that her aunt, ElsVersteegh, specialized in stuttering.”

This resulted in a lifelong friend-ship. Els participated in the 1982Stuttering Foundation week-longconference and wrote a seminalchapter for the book, StutteringTherapy, Transfer and Maintenance.She greatly influenced others whoattended that meeting: Bill Perkins,Joe Sheehan, Einer Boberg, andMalcolm Fraser.

Jane remembers, “My fathernoted at week’s end that ‘Els isthe brightest woman I have evermet and certainly the most knowl-edgeable about stuttering.’”

“In later years, Els translatedEelco DeGeus’ children’s book,Sometimes I Just Stutter, fromFlemish into English and sent itto me,” added Jane. “I was asimpressed with it as Els was andthe Stuttering Foundation decid-ed to publish it.”

The fact that it was now in Englishmade it more accessible to others,and this in turn led to its being trans-lated into a host of other languagesthroughout the world.

This is just a small example ofthe many ways that Els reachedpeople who stutter. She was awonderful warm person who en-riched the lives of all who werefortunate enough to know her. ❑

Elisabeth Versteeghremembered

ElisabethVersteegh

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A dismaying number of speech-language pathologists have littletraining in fluency disorders, ac-cording to a recentsurvey of 255school speech-lan-guage pathologistsfrom 16 counties inPennsylvania, NewJersey, New York,Connecticut andVirginia. The surveycomprised of 49 questions wasconducted by Glen Tellis, Ph.D.,and his colleagues at CollegeMisericordia, Dallas, Pa.

Nearly half of those respond-ing to the survey indicated theywere “not comfortable workingwith children who stutter.”

Plus, a majority of respondentsdid not know how to teach moststuttering modification tech-niques, didn’t know about genet-ic research on stuttering andwere unaware of how to findsupport for those who stutter.

Many of those surveyed did noteven realize that ASHA has aSpecial Interest Division (SID)for fluency disorders.

Since graduating from col-lege, 44.7 percent of the re-spondents hadn’t attended ahalf-day stuttering workshop;40.9 percent never attended afull-day stuttering workshop.On average, the SLPs had onlyattended 1.68 half-day work-shops since graduating.

“The findings of this surveyshow why training workshopsand conferences are more im-portant now than ever,” saidJane Fraser, president of theStuttering Foundation. “Schoolclinicians just aren’t getting thebasic training they need to makea difference in children’s lives.It is frustrating for all con-cerned — SLPs, children andparents.”

Stuttering Foundation trainingworkshops can be found online atwww.stutteringhelp.org. ❑

Glen Tellis, Ph.D.

Alarming statistics show training urgently needed

There were 255 respon-dents. Of these, 87.8% hadMA/MS degrees and 9.4% hadBA/BS degrees.

64.7% had their Certificate ofClinical Competence (CCC).

A majority (95%) had previ-ously taken courses in fluencydisorders.

The average SLP experiencewas 16.37 years and the averageexperience working with childrenwho stutter was 10.96 years.

In the 16.37years, most SLPsattended fewerthan 2 workshopsin stuttering.

On average, theSLPs had onlytreated 12.12 chil-dren who stutteredthroughout their careers and onaverage had 2.02 children whostuttered on their caseloads.

The SLPs had only attendedan average of 1.68 half day flu-ency workshops since graduat-ing from college and 1.60 fullday workshops.

46.3% of respondents hadnever heard of ASHA’s SpecialInterest Division in FluencyDisorders - Fluency SpecialistCertification and 68.4% did notknow how to contact a specialist.

Of the SLPs who had takena full semester of graduatecourse work in stuttering, acause for concern is that:

66.4% did not know how tocontact a Fluency Specialist.

36.6% indicated that theywould not treat initially be-cause the child may sponta-neously recover.

53.1% indicated that theywould not treat when disfluen-cies are first noticed.

27.7% agreed that parents

should tell children who stut-ter to speak slower to reducestuttering.

64.4% do not use attitudescales to assess stuttering.

69.2% do not know about in-tervention techniques to ad-dress bullying.

33.3% could not identify thecore behaviors of stuttering.

43.5% were not comfort-able working with children

who stutter.42.5% could not

differentiate be-tween the twomain approaches(fluency shapingand stutteringmodification) tostuttering therapy.Of the SLPs

who had ASHA’s CCC, a causefor concern is that:

64.5% did not know how tocontact a Fluency Specialist.

39.3% indicated that theywould not treat initially be-cause the child may sponta-neously recover.

55% indicated that theywould not treat when disfluen-cies are first noticed.

22.3% agreed that parentsshould tell children who stut-ter to speak slower to reducestuttering.

68.1% do not use attitudescales to assess stuttering.

71.5% do not know about in-tervention techniques to ad-dress bullying.

32.6% could not identify thecore behaviors of stuttering.

43.8% were not comfort-able working with childrenwho stutter.

The full report can be found atwww.stutteringhelp.org.

A LOOK AT SURVEY RESULTSBy Glen Tellis, Ph.D., College Misericordia, Dallas, PA

ResultsResults

∞ 69.2% do not know about

intervention techniques to address

bullying (Q16)

∞ 33.3% could not identify the core

behaviors of stuttering (Q18)

∞ 43.5% were not comfortable

working with children who stutter

(Q21)


It was just released in March, andalready Stuttering: Basic ClinicalSkills is a winning production.

This DVD features more thantwo hours of demonstrations ofspeech management strategiesfor speech-language therapistsworking with children and adultswho stutter.

It includes footage on identifica-tion, exploring stuttering, explor-ing change, soft starts, changingrate, voluntary stuttering, hold-ing/tolerating the moment of stut-tering, pullouts, cancellations,transfer, and disclosure.

“The new DVD shows a re-markable range of therapy tech-niques and clinical skills for usewith people who stutter of allages,” says Carroll Guitar, oneof the producers of the DVD.

“These well known and well re-spected professionals demon-strate fluency shaping and stut-tering modification techniques

in clinical settings. It is asthough you are in the therapyroom with them. Basic ClinicalSkills is an excellent addition toSFA’s collection of materials.”

“It was a joy to premiere thisDVD at the Texas Speech-Language and HearingAssociation’s annual conventionat the end of March,” adds CarolEcke, who represents the SFA atmany state conventions. “Sincepeople know the high quality ofthe SFA materials, this DVD wasrapidly scooped up by enthusias-tic attendees. The title may say‘basic,’ but the detailed therapyclips and instructional commen-taries by specialists in the area ofstuttering are excellent for allprofessionals. This product willbe around for a long time. ❑


long time stuttering has beenconsidered to be a unitary disor-der. St. Onge and Calvert’s(1964) remark that stuttering hasbeen viewed as a “pathognomon-ic monolith” nicely summarizesthis perspective.

These two scholars posed thequestions: “What are we studyingwhen we study stuttering?Whatever it is, is it one, several, ormany?” Thus, the issue ofwhether stuttering is a single dis-order or one that includes discretesubtypes gains great importance.If subtypes exist, do they differ interms of etiology or relative con-tributions of various factors? Dothey follow different developmen-tal courses? Does the nature of thedisorder vary significantly amongthem? The implications to theoryand research design are obvious.Not less important is the questionof whether subtypes respond dif-ferentially to various treatments.

The concept of stuttering sub-types was already entertainedseveral hundred years ago whenit was proposed that the disorder

is caused by either brain hyper-excitability or by emotionality.New classifications have sur-faced throughout the modern his-tory of speech pathology as re-flected in the writings ofFroeschels (1943), and the morerecent work of Riley and Riley(2000) and Alm (2004), reflect-ing diverse views on the issue.

These classifications can begrouped in many ways. For exam-ple, based on:

(a) etiology, such developmen-tal stuttering in children and ac-quired stuttering when onset oc-curs in adults, or on several sub-types of psychogenic etiologies(Brill, 1923),

(b) prominent stuttering char-acteristics, such as repetitions vs.sound elongations (Froeschels,1943; Schwartz & Conture,1988), or exteriorized vs. interior-ized stuttering (Douglas &Quarrington, 1952),

(c) biological characteristics,such as sex (Silverman & Zimmer(1979), family history of stuttering(Poulos & Webster, 1991), orcerebral lateralization (Hinkle,1971; Sommers, Brady, & Moore,

1975),(d) concomitant disorders,

such as stuttering associated withmotor or with language deficits (J.Riley, 1971),

(e) developmental course, suchas Van Riper’s (1971) scheme thatdifferentiates among four differenttracks.

Although a good number ofideas have been offered, onlylimited research concernedspecifically with stuttering sub-types has been conducted. Moretypically, researchers have fo-cused on a single dimension ofstuttering, e.g., disfluency char-acteristics, motor skills, person-ality, brain hemispheric lateral-ization, thereby over-looking themultifaceted character of thestuttering disorder.

These studies were also limitedto small groups of participants,and often fell short of adequate ex-perimental controls. Perhaps dueto these limitations they have notsucceeded in generating strong ev-idence for straightforward typolo-gies. So far, none of the proposedclassification systems for stutter-ing as a disorder has been adopted

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Actor Michael Palin joined theDecember celebration that kickedoff the beginning of a partnership be-tween the London centre named forhim and the Stuttering Foundation.

“I am enormously proud of thepainstaking way in which ourtherapists, children and parentsconfront and deal with the prob-lem together as a team,” the actorsaid. “This shared approach is thereason why our many years havebeen so successful.”

The Stuttering Foundation andMichael Palin Centrejoined forces in atransatlantic alliance asa way to help re-searchers, clinicians andchildren.

A newly releasedDVD, Stuttering: BasicClinical Skills,includes footagesfrom both sides ofthe Atlantic.

Palin, an actor,writer, and televi-sion host, has beeninvolved in a num-ber of TV pro-grams, movies andtravel films.

Some of his most notable includeMonty Python’s Flying Circus,Ripping Yarns, Brazil, Around theWorld in 80 Days, Sahara withMichael Palin, Pole to Pole andHimalaya. ❑

Michael Palin with Member ofParliament Emily Thornberryand Jane Fraser.

FrancesCook (left)and WillieBotterill. Willie Botterill shares a laugh

with Luke Jeans, who recently shotfootage for SFA’s new DVDStuttering: Basic Clinical Skills.

MichaelPalin,

Tom Hughes-Hallett

and JaneFraser

Michael Palin, Emily Thornberry, JaneFraser and Tom Hughes-Hallett.

Michael Palin holds up a computershowing the Web site for the MichaelPalin Centre.

Jane Fraser with Travers B. Reid.

Travers B. Reid (left), lifepresident and co-founder ofthe Association for Researchinto Stammering in Childhood,and Tom Hughes-Hallett,chairman of the board.

Michael Palin spends timespeaking with children.

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by a significant number of eitherresearchers or clinicians.

The current decade, however,has seen renewed theoretical andexperimental interests in stutter-ing subtypes. For example,Feinberg, Griffin, and Levey(2000) studied people who stutterwith a focus on the old idea ofclonic vs. tonic stuttering;Foundas, Corey, and Hurley(2004) investigated brain lateral-ization; Yairi and Ambrose (2005)further pursued their persistentand naturally recovered subtypes;and Suresh, Ambrose, Roe, et al.(2006) looked at chromosomalmarkers.

Currently, a large research pro-ject devoted to the subtypes no-tion, supported by the NationalInstitute On Deafness and OtherCommunication Disorders, isbeing carried out at the Universityof Illinois Stuttering ResearchProgram with the participation ofseveral other centers (e.g.,Universities of Chicago, Iowa,Wisconsin at Milwaukee,Arkansas, Northern Illinois,Eastern Illinois, and the MichaelPalin Center in London).

Contrary to most previous re-search, this project incorporatesmultiple aspects, such as epidemi-ology, speech, language, motor,

personality, and more, and in-cludes a large corpus of childrenand adults who stutter. Along thelines of multiple factors, variablesnot previously examined simulta-neously in the same individualsover time are being explored.

If subtypes of stuttering areidentified and recognized, thenour theories and models of stutter-ing will need to be sufficiently dy-namic to accommodate the requi-site divisions and subdivisions.As mentioned above, significantpractical implications to counsel-ing, treatment, and research de-sign may result.

Although we are enthusiasticabout the prospects, one must keepin mind the possibility that the dif-ficulties encountered thus far inisolating stuttering subtypes couldmean that stuttering is, after all, aunitary disorder and that well-de-fined subtypes may not exist.References

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Douglas, E. & Quarrington, B. (1952). The differentia-tion of interiorized and exteriorized secondary stuttering.Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 17, 377-385.

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Book really takes offThe Elps of the Airport is a

wonderful 96-pagebook written by notedspeech-languagepathologist PeggyMarks Wahlhaus,who attended the1988 Workshop for Specialistsfrom the University ofWitwatersrand in Johannesburg,South Africa.

In the book, you’ll meetthe Elps – small invisiblepeople who live at the air-port and love to fly but havebeen living under a terriblespell for a long time. Can alittle ElpBoy who stutters

summon all his courage tobring freedom and happinessto all the ElpFolk? Thischarming book tells a uniquestory about bravery, commu-nity, and friendship.

For more information and toorder, visit www.australian-bookgroup.com.au or [email protected].

NSSLHA bake sale: A tasty idea

The NationalStudent Speech-Language-Hearing Association chapterat the University of Cincinnatiheld a pizza and bake sale toraise money for the Stuttering

Foundation.The event not only raised

funds, but raised awareness ofstuttering because chaptermembers handed out postersand flyers to go with thoseyummy treats.

Nick Brendon updatePopular actor Nick

Brendon continuesto amaze. The SFAspokesperson starredin Fire Serpent,which debuted inFebruary.

Also, his seriesKitchen Confidentialwill be released on DVD in May.

NickBrendon

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As we go to press, we aresaddened to learn that Dr. JamesFrick died April 16, 2007.

He was a recognized au-thority in the field of stutter-ing and a longtime friend ofthe Foundation.

He attended the planningsessions for the first SFAweeklong conference that washeld in Delray Beach, Fla.,Dec. 27, 1956, to Jan. 3, 1957.

His complete obituary willappear in the next newsletter.

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When AutoWeek recently ran anarticle featuring StutteringFoundation friend and ambas-sador-at-large Jigger Sirois, theresponse was outstanding.

As a person whostutters, Jigger—well known in theworld of car racingfor some very funreasons — spendshis time these daysadvocating for pub-lic awareness ofstuttering, education and earlyintervention.

It was his failed attempt to qual-ify his car at the Indy 500 in 1969that ironically gave him his claimto fame.

He was mistakenly waved off alap early in a run that would havebeen fast enough to qualify andwon him the pole position.

The “Jigger Award,” that nodriver really wants to win, isgiven annually before the Indy500 to the driver with the worstluck that season.

Jigger credits therapy in 2000with helping him overcome a life-long stuttering problem.

Now he enthusiastically speaksout whenever and wherever hecan to let people know there ishelp and hope.

Promoting the StutteringFoundation in the article created aa huge number of calls to theFoundation.

Jigger was born into a racingfamily in Shelby, Ind., and namedLeon Duray after an Indy 500 driv-er his dad admired. He acquired hisnickname after a Speedway me-chanic, Jigger Johnson.

Jigger dreamed of winning theIndy 500, but today feels grate-ful for his “accidental fame” asit gives him an opportunity toreach more people on his fa-vorite subject: help for thosewho stutter! ❑

Jigger givesstuttering helpthe green flag

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Dylan Levin of Chicago wantedto do something special for hisBar Mitzvah in March.

In lieu of gifts, he asked hisguests to donate to the StutteringFoundation.

Dylan, who has had a speechdisfluency since he was 5 yearsold, says he feels connected to theStuttering Foundation and wantedto help others.

Dylan wrote to the Foundationabout the Bar Mitzvah. “It was awonderful day and evening for me.”

He continued, “I would hopethat this money will help in someway toward research, therapy, andother resources that can assist inhelping people of all ages.”

“Dylan’s thoughtfulness willhelp other young people who stut-ter,” said Jane Fraser, president ofthe Foundation. “It shows what anexceptional young man he is.” ❑

See page 15 for a list of donors.

Bar Mitzvah gifts make a difference

Dylan Levin at his Bar Mitzvah in March.

Thanks to detective work by spe-cialist in stuttering Steen Fibiger ofDenmark, we nowknow more aboutMaurice Tofani,whose $123,645 be-quest reached theFoundation last year.

Mr. Tofani wasborn in Italy in 1928 and came to theU.S., where Fibiger tells us he attend-

ed Columbia University and graduat-ed with a degree in linguistics.

His claim to fameis a thesis titled ALinguistic Approachto the Acculturationof Italians in NewYork City.

We assume butcannot be certain that Mr. Tofaniwas a person who stuttered. ❑

Fibiger solves mystery gift case

greatest chance of success.”Today, the comeback is complete.

Bob Love rose from dishwasher toNordstrom’s corporate director ofhealth and sanitation for its restau-rants nationwide.

In 1988, the National Councilon Communicative Disordersawarded him its IndividualAchievement Award.

And, in 1990, the NBA PlayersAssociation chose Love to receivethe Oscar Robertson Award for

achievement outside basketball.Today, Bob Love remains very ac-tive with the Bulls. He travels toschools and other places dis-cussing issues important to chil-dren and adults alike.

“There is no ‘cure’ for stuttering,but therapy and hard work often canhelp those affected to speak moreeasily and fluently,” notes Fraser.“Bob Love joins an impressive listof famous people who have not letstuttering hold them back from im-portant careers and rewarding lives.Now he is helping others.” ❑

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National Stuttering AwarenessWeek was established by Congressin 1988 to promote public informa-tion and understanding concerningthis complex speech disorder.

“I know how im-portant it is to re-ceive speech thera-py at an early age,”Love said. “Mygrandmother Ellaused to swat me inthe mouth with adishrag and say‘Spit out thosewords, RobertEarl,’” he recalls.

“That approachdidn’t work verywell, but it under-scores the public’smisunderstandingof stuttering that isstill prevalent,” saidLove, who nowspeaks out aboutstuttering aware-ness regularly andhas been featured inmany of theS t u t t e r i n gFoundation’s pub-lic service ads.

Difficulty in find-ing a job for thosewho stutter is noth-ing new to Love. Inthe 1970s, he madethe NBA All-StarTeam three timesand led the ChicagoBulls in scoringseven straight years.But he still stut-tered, and therewere fewer mediainterviews or en-dorsements than aplayer of his caliberwould normally re-ceive.

“After my retire-ment from theNBA, reaction bypotential employersto my speaking dif-ficulty turned the

usually tough post-sports careeradjustment into a living night-mare,” Love relates. “I had a col-lege degree and a well-knownname, but personnel managers sel-dom call back someone who stut-ters on the telephone. For years, I

was either in poor-paying jobs orout of work.”

By the end of 1984 — someseven years after millions hadwatched him play NBA basketball— Love took the only job offeredto him. He would wash dishes and

bus tables for a Nordstromdepartment store inSeattle.

Yet it was here that Love’sstory began a slow, grindingand difficult turn for the bet-ter. First, there was the cor-porate manager ofNordstrom’s restaurants,who offered to have hiscompany pay for speechtherapy. Enter speech-lan-guage pathologist SusanHamilton, who would guideLove through countlesshours of therapy in whichhe learned to manage hismoments of stuttering andspeak more fluently.

“Gradually, I learnedhow to work my speechand to prepare mentallyfor speaking situations,”Love says today. “I beganaccepting a few speakinginvitations and told who-ever would listen aboutthe trials of those whostruggle with stuttering.”

“More than 20 years afterhis first speech therapy ses-sion, Bob’s story continuesto inspire people in allwalks of life. It provideshope to children and adultswho stutter, reminds speechpathologists of the impor-tance of their life’s work,and challenges us all towork on our individualproblems so that we mayexperience their hiddengifts,” said Hamilton.

“My message to youngpeople who stutter and theirparents is direct: Don’twait, like I did,” Love em-phasizes. “As the StutteringFoundation points out in itspublications, speech thera-py during childhood has the


Love Continued from front page

Bob Love, second from left, is among the Chicago Bulls legends whose num-bers have been retired.

Photo courtesy of the Chicago Bulls

America’s Film Fund is producing a one hour docu-mentary which will chronicle Bob “Butterbean” Love’sbattle to overcome his mostformidable opponent: his stut-tering affliction, to become oneof the most sought after motiva-tional speakers in the country.

This documentary will bereleased in the fall of 2007 andinitially distributed to schoolchildren throughout the coun-try. The message of the docu-mentary will be about achiev-ing one’s goals, no matterhow difficult, and the impor-tance of an education inreaching those goals. He currently speaks to morethan 200,000 young people every year about the impor-tance of education and perseverance over adversity.

This documentary is being made available to schoolsand youth organizations nationwide at no charge. It willfeature key people who have supported Bob and whohave been touched by his life-affirming story, includingNBA Commissioner David Stern, Chicago MayorRichard Daley, Chicago Bulls owner Jerry Reinsdorf,Chicago Bulls superstar Michael Jordan, and ArneDuncan, CEO of the Chicago Public Schools.

Stay tuned. The fall newsletter will have more in-formation on this exciting production. ❑

DOCUMENTARY ABOUT BOB LOVE

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Thanks to Dr. ElisabethPeutelschmiedova,Stuttering Foundationbooks are readilyavailable to peoplewho stutter in TheCzech Republic.

Her latest transla-tion effort is Dr. Frederick P.Murray’s classic book A Stutterer’sStory: An Autobiography.

Dr. Murray couldn’t be happierthat his book is helping those inthe Czech Republic.

“It’s exciting to get it into an-other language,” he said. “It’s away to help others. The feedbackhas been very positive.”

His book is also available inEnglish, French, Italian andJapanese.

Other books translated by Dr.Peutelschmiedova into Czech in-clude Do You Stutter: A Guide forTeens, Stuttering Therapy:Transfer and Maintenance, Adviceto Those Who Stutter, Sometimes IJust Stutter, Treating the School-Age Child Who Stutters: A Guidefor Clinicians and Self-Therapyfor the Stutterer. ❑

Popular booknow in Czech

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Warm weather and white-sandbeaches with magnificent oceanwaves were all part of the settingfor the 2006 ASHA Convention,which took place in MiamiBeach, Fla., in November.

The Foundation was a big partof the convention.

The Foundation’s booth waswildly busy with a number ofitems proving to be very popu-lar, including the new DVD se-ries The Child WhoStutters: PracticalIdeas for the SchoolClinician.

Again this year,Susan Hamilton andLisa Scott raisednearly $1,000 for theSFA by sellingCookie Lee Jewelryduring the convention.

The many volun-teers who helped staffthe booth made it a greatsuccess.

Thanks goes to JoeDonaher, Peter Ramig,Kim and Thom Krieger,Joan Babin, John Ellis,Ryan Pollard, Lisa Scott,Lisette Betancourt,Courtney Byrd, JenniferWatson, Kathy Scaler-Scott, Rita Thurman,Patrice Carothers, E. CharlesHealey, Rachel Williams, SusanCochrane, Judy Kuster, DianeParris, Courtney Byrd, Tom andKristin Chmela, Liz Mendez-Shannon, Carol Ecke, and SherylGottwald. ❑

E. Charles Healey speaks with a customer.

Peter Ramig answers a question.

Patrice Carothers and Rita Thurman

Steamy in Miami:ASHA 2006 a hot spot

Above: CarolEcke (left) and Liz Mendez-Shannon suggestbooks to a conference attendee. At left: KathyScaler-Scott isall smiles.

Winnipeg filmmaker JohnPaskievich has created a docu-mentary on a sub-ject he knows aboutfirsthand: stuttering.

His productionUnspeakable ex-plores the everydaytrauma endured bythose who stutter.He interviews people who stut-ter, and even explores treatmentsand therapies. Using hiddencameras, he was able to capturethe reaction those who stutteroften receive from others.

Paskievich believes societyneeds to be better educated andmore accepting of this disorder.

For more information, please visit www.nfb.ca.

Film is Unspeakable



Friends, teacher a big helpDear SFA:

My name is Gage. I live in Ohio.I’m 10-years-old. I’m in the fourthgrade. I started stuttering at age 2. Ifeel my stutter has gotten a littlebetter. It does not make me feel bad.My teacher and my friends help me.It is not a problem for me. I havevery loyal friends. I’ve never beenteased. It does not stop me fromtalking in class. It does not keep mefrom doing things I want to do. I dogo to speech. It does help me. WhenI grow up, I want to be an actor so Ican challenge myself. My advice isnot to think about stuttering.GageAmelia, Ohio

Stuttering is like gumDear SFA:

Sometimes my stutter feels likemy shoe is stuck in gum. I feel realsad. Sometimes kids tease me a lot.And I really feel bad about it.

I was brave enough to give a pre-sentation to my class to tell themabout stuttering. I taught them about“bouncy” talking, “sticky” talking,and “long” talking. And I taughtthem about famous people who stut-ter, like Bo Jackson and James EarlJones (the voice of Darth Vader).We talked about if they were teasedbefore and how did they feel when

they got teased. I told them ways tohelp me when I stutter. They cangive me a signal to tell me to take adeep breath and let some air out.

Now kids don’t tease me thatmuch. If they do, I tell them to comeback when they can stutter betterthan me!Devon, 8Beloit, Wis.

A love for horses Dear SFA:

When I was 5, I started to like hors-es a lot. Then when I turned 9, my

mom signed me up for H and H. Thisis a group that practices horsebackriding. We do hurdle jumping andbarrel racing. Once when I won a bigrace, I had to make a speech in frontof everyone. I realized that I startedto stutter. Then I told my cousin whatI wanted to say and she told every-one. I felt embarrassed that I couldn’tspeak well and I was thankful for mycousin. My stuttering is better nowthan it was before. I hope that peoplewho read my story will realize thatother people can be very helpful.ShellySalem, Ore.

Essay a real winnerDear SFA:

This is Alicia and I wrote thepoem on stuttering in the lastnewsletter. I just wanted to let youknow that I have won first place forthe city-wide PTA contest.AliciaVirginia Beach, Va.

Friends are importantDear SFA:

My name is Chandler and I’m 10years old. When I’m mad at my stut-tering, I go outside and go to myfriend’s house. He makes me feelgood. He stutters like me and we arebest friends. He keeps saying that I

Send letters to SFA, P.O. Box 11749, Memphis, TN 38111-0749 or email [email protected].

Dear SFA: Reader Response

Devon, 8, of Beloit, Wis., drew this pic-ture because he says stuttering feels likewhen your shoe is stuck in gum.

Picture perfect

Isaiah drew this picture and wrote,“When I stutter, my boat is bouncingon a wave.”

Tracey sent us this picturethat includes a

caption thatsays, “No one

understandswhat I’m saying.

Do you have artwork toshare? E-mail it to us [email protected].

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Eric and Julia Roberts are abrother-and-sister act that isunique in the world of acting.

They are only the third brother-and-sister act to be both nominated forOscars for acting. Eric was nominatedfor Best Supporting Actor for his1985 role in Runaway Train. His sis-ter Julia won the Oscar for BestActress for her role in ErinBrockovich in 2001, after receivingprevious nominations in 1989 and1990, for Steel Magnolias and PrettyWoman, respectively. Only two otherbrother/sister combos have done thesame thing. Lionel and EthelBarrymore bothwon Oscars, whileWarren Beatty andhis sister ShirleyMacLaine re-ceived multiplenominations as ac-tors. MacLainewon Best Actressin 1984 for Termsof Endearment.While Beatty hasnever won anOscar as an actor, he won one as BestDirector for Reds in 1981.

While the public knows muchabout the careers of Eric & JuliaRoberts, as well as their estrange-ment over family issues, the pub-lic is largely unaware that this dis-tinguished brother-and-sister actare both entered on the SFA’s listof “Famous People Who Stutter”.The Roberts siblings stuttered aschildren and ironically give cre-dence to the factor of the heredi-ty/genetic link in the stutteringequation. Julia has stated in publicseveral times that she stuttered asa young girl. However, it seemsthat she has not gone into muchdetail. On the other hand, Eric hasspoken very candidly about hischildhood speech, and one couldsurmise that he not only stutteredinto more advanced years of child-hood than his sister, but also thathis stuttering was more severe.

Eric appeared on the cover ofAndy Warhol’s Interview magazinein October 1986, a period in time

which could be considered a highpoint in his career. In the interviewhe did with the magazine, he said, “Iread a lot when I was little because Ihad the worst stutter in the world –“The the the wa-wa-wa-wa-wa-wa-water is cold”. And the class crackedup. I suppose it was funny, but it wasso painful for me. So I read becauseit was a solitary thing where I didn’thave to be cracked up at.”

Similarly, the 2004 biographyJulia: Her Life by James Spada goesinto detail about Eric’s painful stut-tering several times throughout thebook. Spada wrote, “Eric had not ut-

tered a word untilhe was five, thensuffered from anearly cripplingstutter.” Spadaquotes a familyfriend as saying,“When I knewEric, he was soeager to please, hewas a delight – hewas this reallycute kid who stut-

tered and who tried so hard.” Thebook then goes on to say that Ericwas so afraid of taunts at school thatwhen his teachers went from pupil topupil to read out loud in class, Ericwould strategically figure out hispassage in advance and then memo-rize it because he would not stutterwhen speaking from memory.

There was talk of putting Eric intoa special ed class, but when his fa-ther, an acting teacher, saw himreciting memorized lines in front ofa mirror without stuttering, he im-mediately decided that acting wasthe route for his son.

The fact that both Eric and JuliaRoberts appear on the SFA’s list of“Famous People Who Stutter” nodoubt has inspired young peoplestruggling with the problem. Maybesomeday in the future they mightconsider becoming spokespeoplefor the SFA. Until then, the world-wide stuttering community willcontinue to be proud to have such aunique brother-and sister comboamong our ranks. ❑

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should try to quit and some peoplesay, “Why do you say words overand over?” I say I stutter a lot. I goand sleep to help me stop stuttering.Some people call me “stutter-mouth” or call me “stupid.” I likethe way I am! I have a favoriteteacher who helps me with myspeech. Here is a helpful hint: Try tohave a friend just like you!ChandlerEmail

Huge Star Wars fanDear James Earl Jones,

I am a big Star Wars fan and Ican’t believe that you had stutteringproblems. You did anawesome job as thevoice of Darth Vader!

I have stutteringproblems, too. I start-ed when I was 6 or 7.I just want you toknow that you aren’tthe only one withstuttering problems. Inever would have guessed that youhad trouble with stuttering if I didnot read about it.ZaneChester Springs, Pa.

Celebrities excite studentsDear SFA:

My students have really enjoyedreading issues of the newsletter andother information on your Web site(www.stutteringhelp.org). It is won-derful to have such a great resourcefor these young students. Their eyeslight up when they read about famouspeople who stutter and other studentswho are going through some of thesame experiences that they have beenthrough at school and home.Cindy LawlerGreenville, Ms.

Weatherman shares storyDear SFA:

For many years as a child, I stut-tered. My parents had me visit aspeech pathologist for several yearsduring elementary school. While I stillstuttered going into adulthood, it was-n’t a crutch nor did it hold me back.Today, I’m a weatherman for NewsChannel 7 and CookevilleTV.com.Michael Detwiler, Jr. Cookeville, Tenn. ❑

James EarlJones

Eric and Julia Roberts share manythings — including stuttering

Eric Roberts Julia Roberts

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The Stuttering Foundation two-dayconference for speech-language patholo-gists, Best Practices in PreschoolStuttering, will be held on June 16-17,2007, in Cincinnati, Ohio. For an appli-cation form, call the StutteringFoundation at 1-800-992-9392 or checkwww.stutteringhelp.org.

The Stuttering Foundation’s two-weekWorkshop for Specialists will be held atthe University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.The workshop is filled. This year’s eventis directed by Patricia Zebrowski, Ph.D.,and Toni Cilek, M.A. Guest speakers in-clude Frances Cook, MSc, Reg HPC, CertCT (Oxford), Reg UKCP (PCP), andWillie Botterill, MSc, Reg HPC, RegUKCP (PCP), of the Michael Palin Centre

for Stammering Children, London, and Lisa Scott,Ph.D.

The 5-day workshops, held this year in Bostonand Portland, are filled. The Boston workshop isdirected by Diana Parris, M.S., Sheryl Gottwald,Ph.D., and Adriana DiGrande, M.A., Guest speak-ers are Edward G. Conture, Ph.D., and DavidLuterman. The Portland workshop is directed bySusan Hamilton, M.A., Jennier Watson, PhD., andEllen Reuler, M.A.

The 10th Annual Convention of Friends will beheld July 5-7, 2007, in St. Louis, Mo., at the down-town Crowne Plaza. For information and registra-tion, visit www.friendswhostutter.org or call 866-866-8335.

The NSA Annual Convention will be held June 28-July 1, 2007, in Atlanta, Ga. For more information andregistration, call 800-937-8888.

The British Stammering Association an-nounces the 6th ELSA Youth Meeting in July2007 in Nijmegen (Groesbeek) in TheNetherlands. Please visit www.stammering.orgfor more information.

The International Stuttering Association WorldCongress will be May 6-10, 2007, in Dubrovnik,Croatia. For more information, visitwww.stutterisa.org.

Clinical Training in the Lidcombe program willbe June 27-28, 2007, with Barry Guitar, MelissaBruce and Rosalee Shenker. Evidence-BasedTreatment for School-Age Children will be June29, 2007, with Sarita Koushik. Call (514) 489-4320 or e-mail [email protected] formore information.

LISTSERV for doctoral students specializingin stuttering. The intent of this list is to serve asan open forum for doctoral students.Membership is limited to doctoral students only.To subscribe, send the following message to“[email protected]: subscribe stutter-doc firstname lastname: or contact Joe Donaherat [email protected].

For those interested in joining ToastmastersInternational as a way to improve fluency, communi-cation or public speaking skills, their address is:Toastmasters International, Inc., Attention:Membership Department, P.O. Box 9052, MissionViejo, CA 92690, Telephone: (714) 858-8255; Fax:(714) 858-1207.

For those wanting to obtain a copy of Self-Therapy for the Stutterer in Japanese, write toDr. Shokichi Nakajima, 2-21-1 OgawaMachida-shi, Tokyo 194, Japan, telephone/fax:

0427 (96) 5092.Self-Therapy for the Stutterer is available in

French. Write to the Association des Begues duCanada, 2596 A rue Chapleau, Montreal, Quebec,Canada, H2K 3H6; 1-877-353-1042. Please en-close $20.00 Canadian to cover printing, postage,and handling costs.

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S Bacon, Needham Heights, MA. (781) 433-8410.Successful Stuttering Management Program,

Second Edition, by Dorvan Breitenfeldt, Ph.D., pub-lished by EWU Press, Cheney, WA, (509) 235-6453.

Synergistic Stuttering Therapy: A HolisticApproach by Sister Charleen Bloom and Donna K.Cooperman. Published by Butterworth Heineman,Woburn, MA.

Stuttering Intervention: A Collaborative Journey toFluency Freedom by David Allen Shapiro, publishedby Pro-Ed, Austin, Texas.

Clinical Decision Making in Fluency Disordersby Walter H. Manning, Ph.D., published bySingular/Thomson Learning. ❑

Entry to Fantasy: A Journey into Dreamland bySaga. 2006. Saga, a person who stutters, wrote thisbook as a collection of experiences built on real-lifetrials. Available from www.ama-zon.com and www.forbesbook-club.com.

Stuttering: An IntegratedApproach to Its Nature andTreatment, Third Edition by BarryGuitar. 2006. Available fromLippincott, Williams & Wilkins,800-638-3030, www.LWW.com

Stuttering Recovery Personaland Empirical Perspectives byDale F. Williams. 2006.Available from Lawrence ErlbaumAssociates, Mahwah, NJ, www.erlbaum.com

Speech Therapy for the Severe Older Adolescentand Adult Stutterer: A Program for Change byGeorge Helliesen. 2006. Available from ApolloPress, Newport News, VA, 800-683-9713,www.apollopress.com.

The Child and Adolescent Stuttering Treatmentand Activity Resource Guide by Peter Ramig andDarrell Dodge. 2005. Available from ThomsonDelmar Learning, Clifton Park, NY.

Early Childhood Stuttering: For Clinicians byClinicians by Ehud Yairi and Nicoline GrinagerAmbrose. 2005. Available from ProEd, Austin, TXand amazon.com.

Begaiement: Intervention preventive precocechez le jeune enfant by Anne Marie Simon et al.2005. Available from the Association ParoleBegaiement, www.begaiement.org

Teach Me How To Say It Right, Helping YourChild With Articulation Problems by Dorothy P.Dougherty, M.A. 2005. Published by NewHarbinger's Publications, Oakland, CA. Available atwww.newharbinger.com.

Troy’s Amazing Universe, by S. Kennedy Tosten.2002. Published by Brite Press. Order fromwww.TroysAmazingUniverse.com or amazon.com.A story about a seven year old who stutters.

Stuttering Therapy: Rationale and Procedures byHugo H. Gregory, June H. Campbell, Diane G. Hill,and Carolyn B. Gregory. Available from Allyn andBacon, Boston, MA; www.ablongman.com. 2003.

Les begaiements: Histoire, psychologie, evaluation,varietes, traitements by Anne Van Hout and FrancoiseEstienne. Published by Masson, S.A., 120 boulevardSaint Germain, 75280 Paris Cedex 06, France.

Forty Years After Therapy: One Man’s Story byGeorge Helliesen, M.A. Available from ApolloPress, Inc., 800-683-9713 or www.apollopress.com.

Programmed Stuttering Therapy for Childrenand Adults by Bruce Ryan, Ph.D. Available throughpublisher Charles C. Thomas or online atwww.amazon.com

Making a Difference for America’s Children:SLPs in the Public Schools by Barbara Moore-Brown and Judy Montgomery. Available fromThinking Publications, Eau Claire, WI. 715-832-2488.

Ben Has Something To Say by Laurie Lears, illus-trations by Karen Ritz. A book for children ages 5-9. Albert Whitman & Co., Morton Grove, IL. 800-255-7675.

Sharing the Journey: Lessons from my Studentsand Clients with Tangled Tongues by Lon Emerick,Ph.D., available from the Stuttering Foundation at800-992-9392.

Stuttering: Its Nature, Diagnosis, and Treatmentby Edward G. Conture, Ph.D., published by Allyn &

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