Ever since it started as a Gopher site in the mid 90's I have maintained the "Stuttering Home Page" as it grew into a massive resource for people who stutter and those who care about them. Veterans of the site will recognize its opening page which is not linked but reproduced as a jpeg here. One can still access, in the Web Archive, earlier versions that may still have some accessible active links, such as in this archive of the 2011 Stuttering Home Page.

"Progress" always happens, and when my university moved to a new IT system the server on which the Stuttering Home Page resided was scheduled to shut down and ultimately be no longer accessible. The university generously offered to move the SHP to their new system, a costly and time-consuming task, which they concluded in the fall of 2021. I am very grateful that this effort preserved most of the SHP material in their new site. You can access it here.

Let me express my gratitude, for their help in preserving the old Stuttering Home Page and creating this new one, to the following persons:

• Kris Retherford, Dean of the College of Allied Health and Nursing at MSU, Mankato from 2012 to 2022
• Paul Cusick, Director of Technology, College of Allied Health and Nursing
• Molly Hanson, who spent endless hours redesigning my materials and formatting them for the new server
• Ginny Bessler, Senior Accessible Technologies Analyst
• Jeffrey Hundstad, Systems Manager, and on staff at the IT center since I first developed my online material, who was always my internet angel helping me through many crises that occurred over 25 years as access to the server changed with updates by the university, as well as my go-to person for help and advice.

I would also like to express my gratitude to the following for their help in the development of the old Stuttering Home Page

• Mark Thomas from MSU-Mankato (deceased) who patiently helped me get started online more than a quater century ago with a gopher site (and just laughed when I deleted myself the first time) and then saw me through the transition to the WWW along with Chris Upton, a professor from a university in the West, married to a speech therapist who contacted me volunteering to take my gopher documents and put them in html format for the WWW.
• Several past deans of the College of AHN, others in IT services at MSU that have helped me over the years, and colleagues in my Department of Communication Disorders who all supported my efforts in numerous ways.
• And finally, a special thank you to all of the good and wonderful professional colleges and people living with stuttering around the world who have generously provided both materials and friendship over these many years working in the community of people who stutter.

Some material I consider valuable did not make the transition to the new server. In addition, since I do not have access to the new site, I cannot update it with new material nor can I remove links that no longer work.

And so I have purchased a new domain (judykuster.net) and access to a non-university server for five years to start this new "Judy Kuster's Home Page." It will contain material old and new — old from the former SHP that should remain available, and new — for example the Mark Allen therapy program that was entrusted to me by his family after his untimely passing.

I am deeply indebted to Tom Kuster, my wonderful, patient husband (the love of my life) who is much smarter about technology than I am and whose help I continue to rely on in creating the new Judy Kuster's Home Page which will be available for at least the next five years.

If you wish to reach me, for now I still maintain my university email address.

The above was written at Christmas 2021.

Addendum May 8, 2026

A new federal law requiring modifications of university web pages for easier access to people with disabilities made it necessary for the University to remove all of the material from the former StutteringHomePage from their servers — it was simply impossible for them to make all those pages comply with the new law. Department leaders carefully extracted all that material and passed it to me on a (large) flash drive. We will continue working to make the most relevant material available on this (judykuster.net) site.

I remain grateful to Minnesota State University – Mankato for their many years of hosting my work, and their care in preserving it as best they could. It is ironic that a federal law purportedly to assist people with disabilities is forcing offline all of my work assisting people with disabilities. But we will do our best to preserve the most important and relevant on this site.

Written May 8, 2026