It’s the Saturday before the midterm elections and I’m at an apartment complex in South Salt Lake, Utah, about to knock on a stranger’s door. I’m canvassing for Ben McAdams, the Democratic candidate ...
My mom has told me that she first noticed I stuttered when I was around 4 years old and put me into speech therapy straight away. But the point where I myself became aware of my stutter was when I was ...
A new bill in the Florida Legislature would guarantee coverage for stuttering treatment in Medicaid, private insurance, group ...
"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 ...
President Biden’s approach to his own stutter highlights the stigma that the condition still brings. By David Leonhardt About three million Americans — or almost 1 percent of the population — speak ...
His eyes fall to the floor when I ask him to describe it. We’ve been tiptoeing toward it for 45 minutes, and so far, every time he seems close, he backs away, or leads us in a new direction. There are ...
While many people fear public speaking, stand-up comic Drew Lynch has become a success on stage, despite living with a serious speech impediment. Lynch told Fox News Digital he owes his comedy career ...
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 ...
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 ...
WASHINGTON — One of Joe Biden’s proudest childhood accomplishments was a five-minute speech to his all-boys Catholic high school in Delaware. The assignment was routine — a public-speaking requirement ...
After centuries of misunderstanding, research is finally tying the speech disorder which affects millions of people around the world to certain genes and brain alterations – and new treatments may be ...
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 ...