Examples of jobs done by people who stammer

This page gives examples of people who stammer doing various jobs. I have taken particularly people you can read about on the internet in relation to the job, so that you can find out more.

This page shows only examples of jobs and should not be taken as any kind of representative sample. Certainly don't assume that there isn't someone who stammers doing some job because it isn't mentioned here. There almost certainly is. It's probably just that I don't know of it appearing on the intenet yet. Do let me know of anyone you think should be included, including any links for them.

Air-traffic controller

BSA website article on Air traffic controlling with a stammer

Church

No ordinary ordination - an ordained deacon with a stammer, on the BSA website.

Computers

Advice from a Veteran of the High Tech Industry from Gunars Neiders, systems engineer/computer programmer at the Boeing Company and a registered counselor, Washington. On ISAD Online Conference 2000. Includes link to discussion.

Customer service

My partner Christine, who has a stammer, is a senior customer services officer, in charge of customer service at six libraries. Feel free to email her on red_squirrels@yahoo.co.uk you want to discuss it.

Entertainers

singers such as Scatman John and Mell Tillis
actors such as James Earl Jones (the voice of Darth Vadar) and Nicholas Brendon (Xander in Buffy the Vampire Slayer).

Fireman

Case in the Ohio courts (scroll down to heading II.) held that a person who stuttered at interview but could do the job of a firefighter had been unlawfully discrimated against.

Human resouces

Louis Roden, human resources executive in Georgia on ISAD Online Conference 2000. Includes link to discussion.

Lawyer

David M. Steiner, Assistant Corporation Counsel with the New York City Law Department. On ISAD Online Conference 2000. Includes link to discussion.
Myself

Lecturer

Stammering in law lectures - article on BSA website by Michael Jefferson, a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Sheffield.

Management

Content wins more respect than style by David Adams, Chief Executive of the £11 billion Railways Pension Fund, is on the BSA website.
Jack Welch, Chairman and CEO of GE, has a stammer.

Nurse

Account by Karen Lewis, a registered nurse in Ohio, on ISAD Online Conference 2000. Includes link to discussion.

Personnel

See Human Resources above

Politics

BSA patron John McAllion, Scottish Labour MP for Dundee East, has a stammer
Winston Churchill and Aneurin Bevan both had a stammer. They were considered the greatest orators in the post-War parliament. See further my page on London walk based around famous stammerers.

Sales

Ann van der Berg, sales representative in South Africa

Scientist

Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin had stammers - two of the greatest scientists of all time. Robert Boyle and Joseph Priestley also had stammers. For more, see my page on London walk based around famous stammerers.

Speech and language therapist

People who stutter changing careers to become SLPs - on the ISAD Online Conference 1999.

Teacher

"He's the tallest guy teaching the smallest students" - article in the Bowling Green Daily News, 6th August 2004

Vet

Lee Reeves, Texas. On ISAD Online Conference 2000. Includes link to discussion.

For more more see the list of jobs on the Stuttering Homepage.

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