Staff and Board
Meet the people dedicated to helping you
Our clients come from all over the world. And there’s a reason for that. No other stuttering treatment program delivers a customized, “whole person” approach in the way AIS does.
Before beginning treatment, we meet with each client and evaluate aspects of his or her speech and language skills. In addition to assessing stuttering, we learn how our clients feel about their stuttering. How it impacts their lives. Their relationships. Their goals. And their dreams. From there, we create a customized treatment plan – one that takes a holistic, individualized approach to increasing fluency and confidence.
In the course of a lifetime, the average person has 450,000 conversations. Our mission is to make sure our clients fully participate in every one of them.
Meet the Staff
Led by one of the country’s leading PhD’s in fluency disorders, AIS’ top-tier team is almost unrivaled in their credentials – and how much they care.
Board of Directors
Many of the esteemed members of the AIS Board of Directors have been personally impacted by stuttering. They work diligently and passionately to raise funds for stuttering treatment and to spread public awareness of stuttering.

Nolan Russo
Chairman
Director, Business Development
Capital Printing
Middlesex, NJ

Sander Flaum
Vice Chairman
Managing Partner
Flaum Partners, Inc.
New York, NY

Walter Anderson
Former Chairman & CEO
Parade Magazine
New York, NY

Barry Blaustein
Writer, Director, Producer
Los Angeles, CA

Emily Blunt
Actress
London, UK

Laureen Coyne, Esq.
Risk Management Consultant
New York, NY

Eric Dinallo, Esq.
Executive Vice President
General Counsel Guardian Life Insurance Company of America
New York, NY

David Esseks, Esq. Partner
Allen & Overy LLP
New York, NY

Sir Harold Evans
Author, Publisher
New York, NY

Aaron Graff
CEO
Ferring Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Parsippany, NJ

Tony Hooper
Executive Vice President, Global Communications Operations
Amgen
Lake Sherwood, CA

Aman Kumar
Partner
Mindspan, LLC
Palo Alto, CA

Norbert Lewandowski
President, Lewandowski & Co.
Medina, OH

Kenyon Martin
NBA All-Star Forward
Played for the New York Knicks and Milwaukee Bucks

Clarence Page
Journalist
Washington, DC

Austin Pendleton
Actor, Director, Writer
New York, NY

Susan Reichardt, PhD
Surface Transportation Board
Washington, DC

David Resnicow
President,
Resnicow Schroeder
New York, NY

John Stossel
Fox Business Host
New York, NY

Carly Simon
Singer/Songwriter
New York, NY