I spent years of my childhood believing in a singular fallacy: fluency = success. In my early adulthood, the equation expanded to include stuttering = failure (along with unemployment, loneliness, and ...

Nervousness. Stress. Shyness. Speaking more than one language. Thinking too quickly. None of these are reasons why people stutter. Yet, these misconceptions remain all too prevalent, says Angela ...

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 ...

In mainstream media, stuttering is often comical or a symptom in people who are overly vulnerable and nervous. But the condition doesn’t stem at all from nerves or anxiety … and instead of a source of ...

Heartwarming though the movie "The King's Speech" is, as someone who married a stutterer and is the mother of a stutterer, I'm not sure it does anything to put myths about stuttering to rest. Perhaps ...

"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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- It's estimated that more than 79 million people worldwide live with a stutter. In the Bay Area, there's a small but mighty group looking to spread awareness and acceptance of ...

Stuttering affects a little less than 1 percent of the population, though many children go through phases of pseudo-stuttering. Stuttering is not caused by nervousness. The exact causes aren’t known, ...

Filling in the gaps about the genetic risk factors of stuttering may help scientists shatter stigmas and discover new therapies. Most mammals communicate vocally but humans are unique in their ability ...

In collaboration with Northwestern’s School of Communication, Proud Stutter — a nonprofit that works to shift conversations on stuttering — hosted a panel, “Beyond Resilience: Using Film as a Catalyst ...