The medical condition, “disfluent speech” or “dysfluent speech” is commonly referred to as “stuttering” in American English. In British English, the condition is called “stammering.” The terms ...

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has been outspoken about his stutter and last night at the Democratic National Convention, a young boy with a stutter shared a story about how Biden had ...

Xiaofan Lei receives funding from the University of Minnesota and the National Stuttering Association. What comes to mind when you think of someone who stutters? Is that person male or female? Are ...

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; ...

Jennifer (Piper) Below, PhD, and colleagues conducted the largest genetic analysis of stuttering to date, demonstrating a clear genetic basis for the speech disorder and highlighting neurological ...

In genome-wide association studies (GWAS), researchers look for small variations in the sequences of human genes that are connected to some characteristic or condition. Scientists have now performed ...

Stuttering affects roughly 1 percent of the world's population, yet it is not well researched. FatCamera via Getty Images Stuttering is a common speech condition that affects more than 70 million ...

Basal ganglia regions are located in the midbrain. Source: CLIPAREA l Custom media/Shutterstock Stuttering during childhood is a relatively common occurrence. Roughly one in 20 kids (5 percent) go ...

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 ...