Today is Inauguration Day, which got us thinking about speech-making and speeches. President-elect Joe Biden has spoken publicly about his childhood experiences with stuttering and annotating his ...
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 ...
What comes to mind when you think of someone who stutters? Is that person male or female? Are they weak and nervous, or powerful and heroic? If you have a choice, would you like to marry them, ...
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 ...
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – New research from Purdue University shows that even when people who stutter are not speaking, their brains process language differently. "Traditionally, stuttering is thought of ...
The University of Texas (UT) has received a $20 million grant from the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation to establish the Arthur M. Blank Center for Stuttering Education and Research. The new center ...
Stuttering is a speech disorder that disrupts the natural flow of speech, marked by repeating, pausing, or prolonging certain sounds and syllables. Individuals who stutter know what they want to say; ...
Austin and the University of Texas will soon have the largest center for research and education on stuttering. On Monday, UT announced a $20 million legacy grant given to the Moody College of ...
Imagine working as a server during brunch at a busy restaurant, walking up to a table of six, and being unable to say your name. Putting an order in at the bar, stuttering on half of the drinks, and ...