KALAMAZOO -- Vice President-elect Joe Biden is known today as a strong debater and public speaker. But to his grade-school classmates, he was known as "Ba-ba-BI-BI-den Blackbird." Biden endured years ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- That feeling of holding yourself back from finishing the sentence of a person who stutters -- we've all been there. On this National Stuttering Awareness Week, WCCO Radio is doing ...

Tristian Williams, a fourth grader at Fort Jackson's C. C. Pinckney Elementary School was recognized in circles whose members consist of well educated speech and language pathologists for his work ...

For C.C. Pinckney Elementary School student Kourtney McWhite having an article published in an international magazine made her "proud" of herself. McWhite wrote the article for the Stuttering ...

Development Normal to Better in Children Who Stutter Children who stutter have normal social and emotional development and have better verbal and nonverbal skills than their non-stuttering peers.

Childhood-onset fluency disorder is a communication disorder characterized by a disturbance in the flow and timing of speech that is inappropriate for an individual’s age. Also referred to as ...

Understanding the causes of stuttering may no longer be a mystery, as US researchers on Monday provided evidence to show that the speech disorder is influenced by our genes. Stuttering-- characterised ...

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It seems stammering is having a moment: Early this morning, "The King's Speech" received 12 Academy Award nominations, more than any other film this year. One of those nods went to Colin Firth, who ...

Bruce Willis, Marilyn Monroe, and Carly Simon all suffered from stuttering. Today, three million Americans do, too. Most are able to overcome the handicap, which afflicts 5% of all children ― but ...