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This section is the beginning of several links relevant to the history of stuttering. If you have additional ideas for this section, please contact Judy Kuster

Some Famous People who Stuttered/Cluttered in History

Check Famous People Who Stuttered (in the past), which includes
- Ludwig Quidde, Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1927, Recollections of a Stutterer, in Living Age, 328, February 13, 1926, p. 360-363.
- Moses
- Charles Lamb - on his stuttering
Bishop Spooner's Tips of the Slung - history of Spoonerisms, an article from Reader's Digest

History of Designated Days

History of National Stuttering Awareness Day
International Stuttering Awareness Day: From Conception to Present Day by Michael Sugarman, ISAD 2004

History of Associations and Organizations

History of the International Stuttering Association by Jaan Pill (Canada), Benny Ravid (Israel), Stefan Hoffmann (China), Mark Irwin (Australia), Martine De Vloed (Belgium), Thomas Krall (Germany) and Mel Hoffman (California, USA), for ISAD 2001
Overview and Brief History of the National Stuttering Association - ISAD 1999 presentation by Michael Sugarman
Stuttering Foundation of America
- Stuttering Foundation of America Looking Back and Looking Forward ISAD 1998 presentation by Jane Fraser
- Ten Authorities In Search Of An Agreement a skit where several authorities on stuttering, "spoof" themselves at the 1959 Bahamas conference.
- The Jamaican Farewell a skit where several authorities on stuttering, "spoof" themselves at the 1963 Jamaican conference.
Beginnings of Special Interest Division 4
Beginnings of the Journal of Fluency Disorders
Shady Trails - remembering a speech camp in Michigan.
Speech Therapy In A Camp Setting: The Growth And Development Of A Speech Habilitation Center article by John Clancy and David Prins

History of some of the Pioneers in Stuttering

Voices: Past and Present - historical audio presentations, including from ASHA conferences since 1957.
The Pioneers - remembering the contributions of those who have passed on, including, among others:
For those interested in researching some of the early pioneers, you might find the Delyte Wesley Morris Papers of interest. They contain correspondence with Helen Keller, Sarah Stinchfield-Hawke, Wendell Johnson, Stanley Ainsworth, Bryng Bryngelson, and Herbert Koepp-Baker among others and are in the special collections at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.
Lessons from our mentors by Robert Quesal (and Dean Williams), from ISAD 2003
Up Close and Personal: Living with a Legend - by Devon Kundel and Marian Sheehan, of two of important leaders in the treatment of stuttering, Dean Williams and Joseph Sheehan and Jane Fraser about Catherine Hull Van Riper, who was the wife of Charles Van Riper for ISAD 2006
Brochure from the Sheehan Clinic which closed April 2006 after 56 years of serving people who stutter.

Early thoughts about stuttering

"Stuttering: An Inquiry on Therapy and Therapeutic Approaches" featuring Joseph Sheehan, Peter Glauber, Oliver Bloodstein, Wendell Johnson, and Charles Bluemel, handout from a 1959 ASHA Convention presentation
Chapter XII, "Stuttering (Dysphemia) from West, R. (1933). Disorders of speech and voice. (2nd edition) Madison, WI: College Typing Co.
Ulrich Natke's project of Tables of Contents for several historical books about stuttering
Part Of Our Heritage by Elliott J. Schaffer, State University College, Fredonia, New York, first published in the ASHA magazine, April, 1966, p. 167-168
Bluemel, CS (1913) Stammering and Cognate Defects of Speech or volume 1 here and volume 2 here New York: G. E. Stechert and Co.
Stuttering and Lisping (1912) by E.W. Scripture
An Experimental Study of Stuttering (1914) by James Madison Fletcher
Behnke's stammering, cleft-palate speech, lisping (1922) by Kate Emil Behnke
Speech hesitation (1899) by Eliza Jane Ellery Thorpe
Penmanship Stuttering by E. W. Scripture, Ph.D., M.D., visiting physician for Speech Defects to Randall's Island, New York City, reprinted from Journal of AMA, May 8, 1909, p. 1480-1481

Early schools and ideas about the treatment of stuttering

"Our Enterprising Predecessors And Charles Sydney Bluemel" by Ruth M. Clark, ASHA Magazine, April 1964, p. 107-114, reprinted with permission of ASHA, features information about the early "stuttering schools" which guarenteed cures for stuttering.
The Project Gutenberg Etext of Stammering, Its Cause and Cure by Benjamin Nathaniel Bogue, Indianapolis September, 1929 - one of the infamous early "stuttering schools" in the US, attended by Charles Van Riper.
- Florence Yost talks about her experience at the Bogue Institute, an audio file.
Historic Treatments for Stuttering: From Pebbles to Psychoanalysis by Barbara Goldberg, first published in ASHA magazine, June-July 1989, p. 71
A Brief Historical Review of Assistive Devices for Treating Stuttering by Larry Molt, for ISAD 2005
Van Riper, C., "Stuttering: Where and Whither," Asha, Volume 16, 1974, 483-487.
The faults of speech: a self-corrector and teachers' manual (1916) by Alexander Melville Bell
Principles of speech and distionary of sounds, including directions and exercises for the cure of stammering and correction of all faults of articulation (1916) by Alexander Melville Bell
A system of elocution, with special reference to gesture, to the treatment of stammering, and defective articulation (1853) by Andrew Comstock

Stuttering and Family History

An Analysis Of A Stutterer's Family Tree - paper by James Clarkson for ISAD 2001

History of Communication Disorders
The following links contain historical information about stuttering as well as information about the history of communication disorders in general.

A Bibliography Of Writings On The History Of Logopedics, Phoniatrics, Communication Disorders, And Allied Subjects by Jeffrey Wollock, D. Phil., New York and Jorge Perelló, M.D., Barcelona.
Getting Here: The First Hundred Years of Speech-Language Therapy in America by Judith Felson Duchan
The Development of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology in the United States by John J. O'Neill, past president of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
Kuster, JM, How Soon We Forget. . . . , ASHA Leader, December 24, 2002, p. 10
A Early History of ASHA by Charles Van Riper
Recollections from a Pioneer by Charles Van Riper
Text and PowerPoint - Judith Kuster' portion of an ASHA 2005 panel honoring the contributions of our "Foremothers of the Speech Pathology Profession."

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