"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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
President Biden’s approach to his own stutter highlights the stigma that the condition still brings. By David Leonhardt About three million Americans — or almost 1 percent of the population — speak ...
Kenny Koroll, the chairman of the board at the National Stuttering Association (NSA), has a favorite phrase: “We are the cure.” He says it during the closing ceremony of this year’s NSA conference, to ...
A state legislator who knows well the teasing and bullying that happens to a kid who stutters succeeded in his effort to remove the financial barrier that can prevent children with a stutter to get ...
Put on a pair of headphones and turn up the volume so that you can’t even hear yourself speak. For those who stutter, this is when the magic happens. Without the ability to hear their own voice, ...
Stuttering, or stammering, occurs when a person repeats or stumbles over a sound, syllable or word. Certain syllables may be repeated or prolonged, words escape in fits and starts, and can at times be ...
George Springer stepped up to the plate in the 11th inning of Game 2 of the World Series Wednesday night. Fans of both teams may not have been expecting much — throughout Game 1, the Houston Astros ...