Paths Toward Recovery

People share their personal path to long-term recovery from stuttering - for some that path has led to normal fluency, for others it has led to an acceptance of themselves as a person who stutters, whether they speak fluently or not.

• Diary of a Stutterer - 1940-1947 by J. David Williams.
• What You Can Do About Your Stuttering by J. David Williams.
• Developing A New Paradigm For Stuttering by John C. Harrison Program Director, National Stuttering Project
• How I Recovered From Stuttering by John C. Harrison, A keynote speech to the Annual Meeting of the British Stammering Association London, September 8, 2002
• And the Stuttering Just Dies by Jack Menear and A Personal Interview With a Recovered Stutterer -- Jack Menear by John C. Harrison
• A Typical (?) Stutterer's Story by Kenneth O. St. Louis, one of several contributions to "Various Paths to Long-Term Recovery From Stuttering," a seminar presented at the 2nd World Congress of Fluency Disorders, San Francisco, CA.
• The Origin of My Point of View by Robert Quesal, from an essay first presented at the 1996 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention in Seattle, as part of a panel presentation entitled "Successful Treatment of Fluency Disorders: Examples of Long-Term Change."
• Factors most responsible for my change by Peter Ramig, one of several contributions to "Various Paths to Long-Term Recovery From Stuttering," a seminar presented at the 2nd World Congress of Fluency Disorders, San Francisco, CA.
• My Story of Achieving Fluency: Progress Under the Surface and Over Time by Walter H. Manning, one of several contributions to "Various Paths to Long-Term Recovery From Stuttering," a seminar presented at the 2nd World Congress of Fluency Disorders, San Francisco, CA.
• Another Path Toward Recovery by Russ Hicks.
• Stuttering: the Concept of Cure by Tony Troiano.
• Thoughts on Recovery by Kristin Chmela, one of several contributions to "Various Paths to Long-Term Recovery From Stuttering," a seminar presented at the 2nd World Congress of Fluency Disorders, San Francisco, CA.
• Ludwig Quidde, Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1927, Recollections of a Stutterer, in Living Age, 328, February 13, 1926, p. 360-363.
• Accepting the Responsibility For Stuttering by Gary Rentschler
• Jane: A Stuttering Child by her Mother, as told to Maxine M. Johnson, M.S. CCC/SLP
• My life long battle and hard fought fluency using technique, psychology and technology by Geoff Johnston, Balhannah, South Australia. A paper presented for the International Stuttering Awareness Day conference, October 1998.
• Stages of Coping: A Stutterer's Journey from Denial to Integration by Louise Heite. A paper presented for the International Stuttering Awareness Day conference, October 1998.
• A Model for Change from a Consumer's Perspective by Michael Sugarman. A paper presented for the International Stuttering Awareness Day conference, October 1998.
• David Daly shares much of his personal path toward recovery by providing personal background information and more on his Speech and Language Center page.
• The Development of Confident Speech by Noel Trimming.
• How My Stuttering Ended by Miriam Mondlin
• My Story by Michael Susca
• Stuttering: The real story behind the person by Bobby L. Childers II. Presented for a Graduate Speech Fluency Class at New Mexico State University 26 April 2000
• A Stutterer's Journey by Dale Sander.
• In a Manner of Speaking by Ernie Weiss
• How I Conquered Stuttering (or at least caged it) by W. Drew Crowder
• "How Did The Traffic Light Turn Green?" - My Journey Towards Overcoming Stuttering by Hazel Percy
• W..w..wotcha Dave by David Burton
• Speech is a River: My Recovery From Stuttering by Ruth Mead. Richard Parent's French translation of Mead's book.