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The Stuttering Foundation provides a toll-free helpline, free printed and online resources including books, pamphlets, videos, posters, referral services, support and information for people who stutter and their families, and research into the causes of stuttering. [2] Malcolm Fraser's daughter, Jane Fraser, is president of the Foundation.
Greek orator Demosthenes practicing oratory at the beach with pebbles in his mouth. Stuttering (alalia syllabaris), also known as stammering (alalia literalis or anarthria literalis), is a speech disorder in which the flow of speech is disrupted by involuntary repetitions and prolongations of sounds, syllables, words or phrases, and involuntary silent pauses or blocks during which the person ...
The National Stuttering Association (NSA) is a United States support group organization for people who stutter.Its headquarters are in New York City. [1]The NSA was founded by Bob Goldman and Michael Sugarman as the National Stuttering Project in California in 1977. [2]
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The International Stuttering Association (ISA), [1] founded in Linköping, Sweden, in July 1995, [2] is a nonprofit international support group organization for people who stutter. The current chair (since 2019) is Anja Herde.
The American Institute for Stuttering is an American nonprofit organization that provides universally affordable speech therapy to people who stutter.The organization, legally known as The American Institute for Stuttering Treatment and Professional Training (AIS), was founded in 1998 by speech-language pathologist Catherine Otto Montgomery in New York, New York.
White noise masking has been well documented to reduce stuttering. [2] [10] [11] Clinic-based and portable devices, such as the Edinburgh Masker (since discontinued) have been developed to deliver masking, and found that masking was effective in reducing stuttering, [12] [13] though many found that reduction in stuttering faded with time. [14]
Stuttering modification therapy, also known as traditional stuttering therapy, [2] was developed by Charles Van Riper between 1936 and 1958. [14] It focuses on reducing the severity of stuttering by changing only the portions of speech in which a person stutters, to make them smoother, shorter, less tense and hard, and less penalizing.