What a wonderful item by Ross Coleman regarding starting his speech treatment program for stammering (My social awakening: Jonathan Groff influenced me to conquer my stammer, 6 December). Coleman was influenced by the instance of Jonathan Groff, that is not a stammerer, dealing with something head-on.
The McGuire Program that Coleman registered for appears to have actually aided lots of people. While Groff acted as his motivation, there are no scarcity of real stammerers that have engaging tales to inspire individuals as they browse the uneven waters triggered by their speech.
The Stuttering Structure’s web site has an interesting “celeb edge” with biographical posts of renowned stammerers consisting of Marilyn Monroe, Bruce Willis, and BB King. There is no scarcity of British individuals covered, with posts on stammering Britons such as Rowan Atkinson, Emily Blunt, Noel Gallagher, Gareth Gates, Paul Youthful, Jonathan Miller, Robert Donat, Philip Larkin, Lewis Carroll, W Somerset Maugham, and Charles Darwin. All these extremely completed people can just offer to influence and inspire young stammerers.
Peter Botha
Durban, South Africa
