Stuttering is a complex neurodevelopmental disorder that affects about 1 in 100 people across the world. Yet the precise biological pathways that underlie stuttering are not well understood.
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Stuttering has gained attention since the election of U.S. President Joe Biden, who has had a stutter since childhood. Research is changing how stuttering is understood, as well as approaches to treatment.
Joe Biden’s presidential campaign and his inauguration mark an important change for the roughly 3 million people in the United States who stutter.
Children who stutter may be less popular among classmates, appear shy and quiet, and often avoid speaking in class so that they don’t draw attention to their speech disorder.
Most speech and language disorders of early childhood are obvious right from the start. If a child is having difficulty producing sounds or using language, the problem is noticed when speech development…
What did Moses, Marilyn Monroe, Winston Churchill, Claudius, Lewis Carroll and King George VI have in common? They were all known to stutter. A new study - by me and my collaborators around Australia and…
Online speech therapy programs might be the answer to overcoming a stutter. Researchers at the University of Sydney have…
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Professor of Speech Pathology and Director, Australian Stuttering Research Centre, University of Sydney
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Professor of Speech Pathology, Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne and Associate Director Clinical and Population Health, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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PhD Candidate in Speech Pathology, University of Minnesota
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Emeritus Professor, Department of Psychology, Lakehead University
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Professor and Founding Director, Binghamton University, State University of New York