Stuttering is a complex neurodevelopmental disorder that affects about 1 in 100 people across the world. Yet the precise biological pathways that underlie stuttering are not well understood.

Speech pathology researcher explains the science and the misconceptions around stuttering by Xiaofan Lei, The Conversation Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain ...

Therapy can help some people speak more easily and accept that they sometimes stutter, Yaruss said. Encouraging society to ...

Stuttering is a disturbance in the normal fluency and time patterning of speech. Developmental stuttering (DS), with or without associated psychiatric illness, is the most common form and includes all ...

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 ...

Stuttering Stuttering, stammering or disfluency is a speech disorder that can hamper communication and affect a person’s quality of life. Its impact can be treated effectively by stuttering therapy.

Yet many therapists are ill-equipped to handle a multilayered problem like stuttering. Of the roughly 150,000 SLPs in the United States, fewer than 150 are board-certified stuttering specialists.

Michael Kidd-Gilchrist advocates for NY legislation requiring insurers to cover speech therapy costs for stuttering, following successful efforts in Kentucky. Skip Navigation Share on Facebook ...

In as much as 10% of these children, they’re developing these atypical stuttering-like disfluencies,” Usler said. As more research examines brain activation during speech production and disfluent ...

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 ...