OK guys and gals, I know you may think this is not for real but it is! I work for a nonprofit company that helps with the above topic. The company has been in business since 1947. It is called the Stuttering Foundation of America. The founder, Malcolm Fraser, was a stutterer himself and now his daughter runs the foundation. We are open Monday through Thursday 8:00 til 4:00 CST and Friday 8:00 til 3:00 CST. Closed on weekends. But we have two recorders for after hours and weekend requests. Our number is 1-800-967-7700. Just leave your name and address, and spell them out and tell us whether you need information for preschooler, elementary, teen or an adult. I am including the link to our website as it has alot of our information and extra information also including streaming videos that can be viewed. There is a place on our website to request information also. Plus an online store! Enjoy browsing.

http://www.stutteringhelp.org/

Good Organization Nut. Im sure that's got to be an irritating condition.

It is very difficult for some people. We have some people that call that stutter so bad they end up hanging up for not being able to get their words out. I grew up in a neighborhood where we had a neighbor boy who stuttered. None of us paid attention to his stutter at all. But some nowadays get teased. And we have pranksters, teenagers, who love to call up and pretend they are stuttering and start laughing, or try to give us a name and address of someone that stutters that they want to tease about it. Horrible. We tell them we have caller id and tell them we will be contacting their parents, boy do they hang up fast!

I used to have a horrendous stuttering problem until I took a course called American Sign Language. I had to really give what I was saying some thought, and I had to deal with the pressure of being in front of the class interpreting everything I was hearing in my headphones. If you stutter in sign language you have to stat ALL OVER, thus the life lesson “do it right the first time” was incorporated into my speech and enunciation habits as well. I still stutter sometimes when I’m under sever pressure. It was awful though people always thought I was lying searching for some great excuse or stalling for time. I’ve come along way though.

Glad to hear you have made strides in being able to manage your stuttering SuperMav83. Hope you looked around on my work's website some.

Your absolutely right, and I apologize I felt like I had the right after dealing with 17 years of habitually repeating syllables and speech anxiety I'd paid my dues, but it never felt good to have someone pick on me about it. I am glad you guys exist, I wish I would have known about you when I was kid.

You do not have to apologize for anything. You just needed to get it out. Here is something about the Founder Malcolm Fraser that you might find interesting.

Fraser knew from personal experience what the person who stutters is up against. His introduction to stuttering corrective procedures first came at the age of fifteen under the direction of Frederick Martin, M.D., who at that time was Superintendent of Speech Correction for the New York City schools.
A few years later, he worked with J. Stanley Smith, L.L.D., a stutterer and philanthropist, who, for altruistic reasons, founded the Kingsley Clubs in Philadelphia and New York that were named after the English author, Charles Kingsley, who also stuttered.
The Kingsley Clubs were small groups of adult stutterers who met one night a week to try out treatment ideas then in effect. In fact, they were actually practicing group therapy as they talked about their experiences and exchanged ideas. This exchange gave each of the members a better understanding of the problem. The founder often led the discussions at both clubs.
In 1928 he joined his older brother Carlyle who founded the NAPA Genuine Parts Company that year in Atlanta, Georgia. Malcolm Fraser became an important leader in the company and was particularly outstanding in training others for leadership roles.
In 1947, with a successful career under way, he founded the Stuttering Foundation of America. In subsequent years, he added generously to the endowment so that at the present time, endowment income covers over fifty percent of the operating budget.
In 1984, Malcolm Fraser received the fourth annual National Council on Communicative Disorders’ Distinguished Service Award. The NCCD, a council of 32 national organizations, recognized the Foundation’s efforts in "adding to stutterers’, parents’, clinicians’, and the public’s awareness and ability to deal constructively with stuttering."
In 1989, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, presented Fraser with the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters for his outstanding work on behalf of those who stutter. Malcolm Fraser was honored posthumously with the Charles Van Riper Award, presented by actor James Earl Jones at the 16th annual NCCD Awards Ceremony in Washington, D.C., September, 1997. Established by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association in 1995, the Van Riper Award was given to Fraser for “his outstanding commitment to people who stutter.”

Dr. Kathleen Griffin (left) presents the NCCD 1984 Distinguished Service Award to Malcolm Fraser.