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 ...

Tristian Williams, a fourth grader at Fort Jackson's C. C. Pinckney Elementary School was recognized in circles whose members consist of well educated speech and language pathologists for his work ...

Stuttering is a speech disorder. There are various ways to stop or reduce a stutter. These include mindfulness, avoiding triggering words, and speech therapy. Stuttering affects more than 70 million ...

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 ...

Development Normal to Better in Children Who Stutter Children who stutter have normal social and emotional development and have better verbal and nonverbal skills than their non-stuttering peers.

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...