Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The majority of children who stutter will spontaneously recover from it without intervention, but some 20% of people do not.

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 ...

Many people consider stuttering just a simple speech disorder. But University of Mississippi professor Gregory Snyder and a team of student researchers are working to upend that thinking and develop ...

For the parents of children who stutter, managing the communication disorder alone can be stressful and isolating. At Saint Louis University’s Speech-Language and Hearing Clinic, one mother discovered ...

Adults who stutter experience differences in how their brains process sound, and these sensory differences tend to overlap ...

ORLANDO, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) --- More than 80 million people worldwide stutter and in the United States, over three million Americans stutter. Approximately 5% of all children go through a period ...

Today is Inauguration Day, which got us thinking about speech-making and speeches. President-elect Joe Biden has spoken publicly about his childhood experiences with stuttering and annotating his ...

Kenny Koroll, the chairman of the board at the National Stuttering Association (NSA), has a favorite phrase: “We are the cure.” He says it during the closing ceremony of this year’s NSA conference, to ...

Char Adams is a Human Interest writer and reporter at PEOPLE. She also writes about her experiences on her blog and vlog, The Stuttering Journalist. I’m one of the three million people in the United ...

The PURDUE STUTTERING PROJECT is no longer recruiting new participants as we are in the final stages of data analyses and working on final publications describing our research. The project was founded ...

Coping with stuttering: one person’s journey. Because stuttering primarily involves disfluent speech, it's likely that neural deficits in the brain regions responsible for speech production are at the ...