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 ...

Adults who stutter experience differences in how their brains process sound, and these sensory differences tend to overlap ...

A global study has identified the DNA markers for stuttering, providing a genetic link that will pave the way for clinicians to predict which family members will experience the speech disorder ...

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 ...

Persistent developmental stuttering (PDS) is a speech disorder that impairs communication skills. Despite extensive research, the core causes of PDS are elusive. Converging evidence from task-induced ...

Karen Hopkin: This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science. I’m Karen Hopkin. Hopkin: When you stop to think about it, it’s not all that easy to speak. First you have to think of something to say.

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. For the approximately 1 percent of the world’s population who suffer from stuttering, simple social situations can be a humiliating ...

Gerald Maguire has stuttered since childhood, but you might not guess it from talking to him. For the past 25 years, Maguire—a psychiatrist at the University of California, Riverside—has been treating ...

Feeling put on the spot on a video screen when you can’t get words out can be intimidating. Experts offer advice. By Jenny Marder Like all of the students at her Bronx high school, Kaitlyn Tineo had ...