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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...