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
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
"Hello World" a website dedicated to Charles Van Riper, developed by Judith Kuster in collaboration with Andrew Amor containing a bibliography of Van Riper's writings, many linked to the documents, audio presentations, unpublished writings, and pictures (http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster/vanriper/helloworld.html)
"Wendell Johnson: A Memorial Page" by Johnson's son, Nicolas (http://www.uiowa.edu/~cyberlaw/oldinav/wjhome.html) includes many of Johnson's articles and a copy of his book Because I Stutter (http://www.uiowa.edu/~cyberlaw/wj/bis/wjbis.html)
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.
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
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
An Experimental Study of the Effect of Evaluative Labelling on Speech Fluency, by Mary Tudor - a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts, in the Department of Psychology, in the Graduate College of the State University of Iowa, August, 1939
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.
History of Communication Disorders
The following links contain historical information about stuttering as well as information about the history of communication disorders in general.