KALAMAZOO -- Vice President-elect Joe Biden is known today as a strong debater and public speaker. But to his grade-school classmates, he was known as "Ba-ba-BI-BI-den Blackbird." Biden endured years ...
Stuttering is a speech disorder that disrupts the natural flow of speech, marked by repeating, pausing, or prolonging certain sounds and syllables. Individuals who stutter know what they want to say; ...
Bruce Willis, Marilyn Monroe, and Carly Simon all suffered from stuttering. Today, three million Americans do, too. Most are able to overcome the handicap, which afflicts 5% of all children ― but ...
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Research on stuttering conducted at the University of Illinois during the past 13 years has produced a wealth of new knowledge about the cause, onset, early characteristics, and ...
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 ...
The largest genetic analysis of stuttering has demonstrated a clear genetic basis for the speech disorder, highlighting neurological pathways of risk. The study, published July 28 in the journal ...
Childhood-onset fluency disorder is a communication disorder characterized by a disturbance in the flow and timing of speech that is inappropriate for an individual’s age. Also referred to as ...
The largest genetic analysis of stuttering has demonstrated a clear genetic basis for the speech disorder, highlighting neurological pathways of risk. The study, published July 28 in the journal ...
A large-scale genetic analysis using data from 1 million people has identified 57 genomic loci linked to stuttering. The findings suggest shared genetic pathways with autism, depression and musicality ...