Learning to talk is one of the most complex and challenging tasks of the first few years of life. There are so many complicated physical, cognitive, and emotional mechanisms involved, and they all ...

My colleague, Katie Schlagheck, Ohio State University Extension educator in Ottawa and Sandusky counties, wrote a great article a couple of months ago about stuttering in children. She specializes in ...

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 ...

Parents seeking support for children who stutter now have access to expert guidance from the comfort of their home or local library. The nonprofit Stuttering Foundation is offering a free 16-minute ...

Over three million Americans stutter. Approximately 5% of all children go through a period of stuttering that lasts months. Some can recover on their own, but for others, it can be a difficult road.

"What somebody who stutters has to say is just as important as what anybody else has to say: It just might take them a little longer to get it out.” As his peers prepared for another school year, then ...

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A global study has identified the DNA markers for stuttering, providing a genetic link that will pave the way for clinicians to predict which family members will experience the speech disorder ...

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 ...

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