Brandon Towle, is the Founder & Executive Director of Camp Words Unspoken. He is a person who stutters and received his Associates Degree in Business Administration from Holyoke Community College.

Brandon has been contributing to the success of Camp Words Unspoken in a variety ways. This includes marketing, fundraising management, building donor relationships, program development, leadership development, special events, financial management, recruiting program participants and working closely with board members. He is proud of this life changing experience he has created for individuals who stutter and is on a mission to create more opportunities in the stuttering community. Brandon continues to serve as a guest speaker at universities, stuttering awareness events, non-profit conferences and summer camp conferences.

Brandon over the years has held various leadership roles for both recreation and dysfluency camps. He enjoys playing basketball and golf in his free time. He currently resides in Westfield, MA.

Words From the Director….
“Confidence and being comfortable with yourself are key factors that my program strives to bring out in each person. My staff and I will work closely with the campers to help reach their personal goals and to increase their level of confidence. We will ensure that the campers keep busy in a fun-filled environment. My hope is that each camper leaves with a lifetime of memorable moments during their stay with Camp Words Unspoken!”

Lourdes Ramos-Heinrichs, M.A, CCC-SLP, BCS-F, has been a certified speech and language pathologist for over 30 years. She is a fluency specialist and holds a lifetime membership with the American Board of Fluency Disorders. She has worked in two large urban school districts, in California and Boston, since 1991, providing speech-language clinical services to school-age children. She has mentored numerous SLP colleagues through the processes of fluency specialization. She has been a fluency consultant within the Boston Public School District. Throughout her career she has been teaching classes and supervising clinics on Fluency Disorders in various settings including Northeastern University and Massachusetts Speech-Language Hearing Association.

Lourdes served as CE Coordinator for two years on the American Board of Fluency and Fluency Disorders. Lourdes holds a lifetime membership with (ABFFD).  She has mentored numerous SLP colleagues through the processes of fluency specialization and has been a fluency consultant within the Boston Public School District. Throughout her career she has been teaching classes and supervising clinics on Fluency and Fluency Disorders in various settings including Northeastern University.

Lourdes enjoys engaging in all sports such as swimming, tennis, kayaking, biking, and hiking.  She is a certified Sogetsu School Ikebana teacher and plays the ukulele for fun. Lourdes is glad to serve as the clinical co-director with Deborah Bennett.

Stephanie Frank, MA CCC-SLP has been an ASHA-certified Speech Language Pathologist for 15 years. Stephanie began her career as a medical Speech Language Pathologist at various hospitals in New York City, where she treated adults and children who experienced brain injury which resulted in various speech. language and swallowing impairments. She has joined the NYC Department of Education, where she works in a community high school in Queens. Stephanie’s experience and expertise lies in fluency, autism, executive functioning, and literacy, as well as coordinating various social skills clubs and events in her school. She also provides speech and language evaluations to school age children.

When not working, Stephanie can be found on a beach, in Italy, or at a concert. She enjoys all that the great city of New York has to offer, especially trying every type of restaurant and cuisine. Stephanie lives in Astoria, Queens, and hopes to get a cat and a fish tank someday soon.