Stuttering, or stammering, occurs when a person repeats or stumbles over a sound, syllable or word. Certain syllables may be repeated or prolonged, words escape in fits and starts, and can at times be ...

Sounding out words for the first time is hard for children. Repeating sounds and dropping of letters is common. In fact, 30 percent of kids have difficulty sounding out words during their early ...

Holly Nover grew up trying to hide her stutter. “I was very self conscious,” said the 40-year-old St. Johns, Fla., mom, whose 10-year-old son Colton also has a speech impediment. “So I developed ...

What comes to mind when you think of someone who stutters? Is that person male or female? Are they weak and nervous, or powerful and heroic? If you have a choice, would you like to marry them, ...

The University of Texas (UT) has received a $20 million grant from the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation to establish the Arthur M. Blank Center for Stuttering Education and Research. The new center ...

One per cent of adults and five per cent of children are unable to achieve what most of us take for granted—speaking fluently. Instead, they struggle with words, often repeating the beginning of a ...

As discussion over the age and mental acuity of both U.S. President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump became more heated in the run-up to the 2024 presidential election, assertions about the ...

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 ...

After centuries of misunderstanding, research is finally tying the speech disorder which affects millions of people around the world to certain genes and brain alterations – and new treatments may be ...

Among a long list of Long Covid symptoms that linger weeks or even months after infection, speech disorders like stuttering too are being reported in Covid survivors. While respiratory complications ...

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 ...