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 ...

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 ...

In mainstream media, stuttering is often comical or a symptom in people who are overly vulnerable and nervous. But the condition doesn’t stem at all from nerves or anxiety … and instead of a source of ...

22 October is observed as International Stuttering Awareness Day annually. It is a day dedicated to breaking stigma, raising awareness, and encouraging compassion for people who stutter. Speech ...

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 ...

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 ...

Overcoming the stigma Research shows that stuttering is usually considered an undesirable characteristic and that people who stutter are discriminated against and often socially devalued. Examples ...

Dr. Martine Vanryckeghem is the only board-recognized fluency specialist in the Orlando metropolitan area. She is a professor at the University of Central Florida, chair of the Orlando chapter of the ...

Michael Stones presently receives no funding from any organization. Joe Biden’s election as president of the United States rekindled interest in accomplishments by adults who stutter. Biden has ...

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 ...