The majority of children who stutter will spontaneously recover from it without intervention, but some 20% of people do not. fizkes/iStock via Getty Images Plus What comes to mind when you think of ...
HAVERTOWN, PA — About 1 percent of the population in the United States are people who stutter. While pop culture has often painted stuttering as a comical speech disorder, coping with the neurological ...
The largest genetic analysis of stuttering has demonstrated a clear genetic basis for the speech disorder, highlighting neurological pathways of risk. The study, published July 28 in the journal ...
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 ...
10-year-old Harriet Hewitt, the fourth-generation member of her family to stutter, took part in the global study with every generation up to her Great-Grandfather providing saliva samples to help map ...
A former University of Kentucky basketball player is bringing his stuttering awareness tour to Lexington this weekend. Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, a member of UK’s national championship-winning men’s ...
For the Hispanic community, the Stuttering Foundation offers a Spanish-language website at tartamudez.org, writes Juan Gardea of South Bend, Ind.
Bryan Hudson, John Michael Schmitz, Will Blodgett, Joshua Ezeudu, and Tomon Fox attend The American Institute for Stuttering's 19th Annual GALA. Photo Credit: Bryan Bedder, Getty Images for The ...
A graduate student at Northern Arizona University has started a stuttering support group for the Flagstaff area. Aspen Jester is in the process of earning her master’s degree in clinical speech ...