When I open my mouth to speak, sometimes the sentences flow with an effortlessness that most people take for granted. Other times my face clenches and the words come out in repetitive machine-gun ...

Nervousness. Stress. Shyness. Speaking more than one language. Thinking too quickly. None of these are reasons why people stutter. Yet, these misconceptions remain all too prevalent, says Angela ...

Stuttering affects many people; indeed, the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) estimates that stuttering affects approximately 1% of the world’s population (including about three ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – New research from Purdue University shows that even when people who stutter are not speaking, their brains process language differently. "Traditionally, stuttering is thought of ...

“Hi, my name is Ronan,” the boy wearing a tie-dye sweatshirt in an online video says slowly. “I’m a person who stutters, and I’m worth listening to.” The next video under the hashtag ...

Imagine working as a server during brunch at a busy restaurant, walking up to a table of six, and being unable to say your name. Putting an order in at the bar, stuttering on half of the drinks, and ...

Stuttering is a speech disorder that disrupts the natural flow of speech, marked by repeating, pausing, or prolonging certain sounds and syllables. Individuals who stutter know what they want to say; ...

Gerald Maguire has stuttered since childhood, but you might not guess it from talking to him. For the past 25 years, Maguire—a psychiatrist at the University of California, Riverside—has been treating ...

Austin and the University of Texas will soon have the largest center for research and education on stuttering. On Monday, UT announced a $20 million legacy grant given to the Moody College of ...

Feeling put on the spot on a video screen when you can’t get words out can be intimidating. Experts offer advice. By Jenny Marder Like all of the students at her Bronx high school, Kaitlyn Tineo had ...