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You should also tell people about The Stuttering Foundation and the wealth of information, online streaming videos, referrals to speech therapists who specialize in treating stuttering, brochures on many topics, as well as libraries that shelve their books. Perhaps, an article about stuttering and the free help at www.stutteringhelp.org could be done for National Stuttering Awareness week in May. Parents of children who start stuttering need the information on The Foundation's web site!

Congratulations to Jeff Olevson on the terrific article about stuttering and the NSA. As a person who stutters and has been a long time member of the NSA, I was so pleased to see more information on this speech disorder getting out to the public. Hopefully, it will encourage readers to get more information and have a more understanding attitude toward people who stutter. We're actually just like the rest of you, only we sometimes get "hung up" on getting our words out. The NSA is a great support system for people who stutter, besides offering loads of information packets to families of those who stutter. It also encourages much research into the disorder.
Betty Becker

Excellent article about my friend Jeff Olevson! Unlike many articles about stuttering, your reporter hit the nail squarely on the head. Congratulations to Samie Hartley on a first class - and very accurate - article!

Jeff is a new chapter leader of the San Jose Chapter of the National Stuttering Association, the NSA. We are very proud of him and the work he is doing.

We invite readers to visit the website of the NSA at www.WeStutter.org. (www.nsastutter.org works too.) The Stuttering Foundation of America is also an excellent organization. This entire article is absolutely outstanding for National Stuttering Awareness Week, the second week in May, each year.

Keep up the good work!

Russ Hicks, National Stuttering Association, Dallas, Texas.