Longtime SFA Supporter Edward Rondthaler Dies at 104

Edward Rondthaler was one of the 20th century’s foremost men of letters – actual physical audible letters. An outspoken advocate of spelling reform,  he spent decades trying to impose order on his 26 lawless charges. As a noted typographer who first plied his trade 99 years ago, he helped bring the art of typesetting from the age of hot metal into the modern era – and he was a person who stuttered.

15th International Stuttering Awareness Day Online Conference

The 15th International Stuttering Awareness Day Online Conference, A Voice and Something to Say, will start Oct. 1, 2012.

14th Boston Workshop Earns A+

Since 1985, the Stuttering Foundation has conducted intensive summer workshops in order to increase the pool of speech-language pathologists trained in the latest techniques for the treatment of stuttering. This summer was no exception.
 

Mid-Atlantic Workshop Builds Confidence

In July, the Stuttering Foundation of America, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), and The Florida State University co-sponsored the fourth Mid-Atlantic Workshop, Treating Children and Adolescents Who Stutter, in Philadelphia. 
 

Stuttering Foundation: SNL Skit a ‘Huge Step Backwards’ for Stuttering Community

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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (Sept. 17, 2012) — Jane Fraser, president of the Stuttering Foundation, www.StutteringHelp.org, made the following comments concerning the Sept. 15, 2012, Saturday Night Live skit ridiculing those who stutter: 

Vertigo Named Best Movie of All-Time

On Aug. 1, 2012, the 1958 classic Hitchcock thriller Vertigo was named the best movie of all-time, ending the 50 year run of Orson Welles’ debut movie Citizen Kane. Sight & Sound, a magazine published by the British Film Institute, surveys top international film critics every decade.

Looper Takes the Stuttering Out of Willis' Childhood

Sept. 28, 2012 — Today marks the long awaited U.S. release of the movie Looper starring Bruce Willis. In this futuristic action thriller set in 2044, Bruce Willis’ character encounters a 25 year-old incarnation of himself, played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who has been contracted to kill him.

New Website Unveiled

After months of research, designing, brainstorming, and hard work, the Stuttering Foundation’s new website, www.StutteringHelp.org, went live Saturday July 28. 
 
“We are excited to bring a new and improved resource to the public,” said Jane Fraser, president of the Stuttering Foundation. 
 

Hoagland: Writing Wild

The fascinating career of Edward Hoagland, novelist and nature writer was featured in the April 9th, 2012, Wall Street Journal article “Tracking the naturalist.” The article shed light on Hoagland’s amazing exploits that fueled his conservation writing for almost sixty years. The 79 year-old writer said, “Our world is being destroyed in a quiet holocaust. It’s up to us to say what we have to say while we can still do so.”

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