The King’s Speech is an amazing film and I really hope that it wins many more awards. To me, as a doctor, it’s also a great lesson in how to treat a stammer. A member of my family stammers and I’m ...

Kitty is one of Jessie's 3.5m TikTok followers and says she is a role model for people with a stammer When Kitty has a bad day with her stammer, it can make her feel it would "probably be easier if I ...

The unprecedented Oscar success of 'King's Speech' has brought much world attention to the baffling speech problem of stammering. In the movie it is Duke of York (the king-to-be of England) who ...

When we delve into stuttering causes, we find that no single, exclusive cause of developmental stuttering can be identified. Genetic basis can be recognised as one of the most substantial pieces of ...

Since 1998, 22 October has been designated as International Stammering Awareness Day, an opportunity for the general public to learn what a psychologically complex impediment stammering is. If my ...

Eighty million people around the world have a natural stammer. Krupa Padhy speaks to those who've decided to embrace it – and discovers surprising benefits. It was the summer of 2011 and Joshua St ...

From as early as I can remember until 1952, when I left home at the age of 18 to go into the army, there was an annual ritual on the afternoon of Christmas Day. Dinner, which meant turkey and all the ...

His most notable film, where Colin Firth embodied a stammer, is The King's Speech where he plays the character of King George VI. "It had an effect on my body – headaches," Firth began. "I had to ...

Shadow chancellor Ed Balls, who suffers from a stammer, has hailed the "fabulous example" of schoolboy Musharaf Asghar whose battle against a speech disorder in a bid to gain an English GCSE was ...

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When Kitty has a bad day with her stammer, it can make her feel it would "probably be easier if I didn't say anything at all". The 16-year-old feels comfortable talking among friends and has found a ...