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12 JANUARY 2022| REPORTER NEWSPAPERS
Arthur Blank expands stuttering treatment center to Brookhaven want to live life to our fullest,” Blank said. “To me, the true beauty of the work is that it unlocks each one of these lives to be the very best at whoever they want to be … If you want to be president of the United States, you can be the president of the United States. You can be whatever you choose to be.” Blank’s center offers services free of charge. It works to advance effective At right, Judah Toure with Kia Johnson, associate director of The treatments and proArthur M. Blank Center for Stuttering Education and Research. gramming for stuttering, as well as create a pipeline of BY AMY WENK clinicians and researchers. It also wants Seven-year-old Judah Toure had a to remove the stigma around stuttering, message to share about stuttering. giving kids the confidence to pursue their “It’s not a bad thing,” Toure said Dec. dreams. 14 during the grand opening of the first “Stuttering is not something you satellite location of The Arthur M. Blank should be ashamed of,” said Kia Johnson, Center for Stuttering Education and Reassociate director of the Atlanta satellite. search. Johnson has a 9-year-old child who stutThe center today sits in Brookhaven’s ters. “It does not hold you back.” Executive Park. A permanent location is Dr. Courtney Byrd leads the center, planned for the Arthur M. Blank Hospital at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, which is under construction on North Druid Hills Road and set to open in 2025. Blank, owner of the Atlanta Falcons and Atlanta United who runs a foundation based in Buckhead, first established the stuttering center at The University of Texas at Austin in 2020 with a $20 million gift. Now, he is expanding the reach of the center with the new satArthur Blanks speaks with kids during the Dec. 14 event. ellite location, which was fueled by an additional $12.25 million grant from his described as a “whole-person therapeufoundation. tic approach that helps children, teenagFor Blank, it’s personal. He stuttered ers and adults grow as confident, effecas a child. tive communicators.” “I just had a very supportive mothThe Atlanta center looks to help 500 er who told me time and time again that people in its first year. ‘What you say is important. What you The hope is to open more satellite think is important,’” Blank said during centers across the country. Byrd’s intenthe December event. sive treatment program “Camp Dream. Blank used President Joe Biden as an Speak. Live.” is also planned for countries example of a person who stutters and is including Nigeria, South Africa, Italy and working to normalize the condition. Belgium, among several others. “We all have dreams in life. We all reporternewspapers.com BH
