Learning to talk is one of the most complex and challenging tasks of the first few years of life. There are so many complicated physical, cognitive, and emotional mechanisms involved, and they all ...

Stuttering is more than just struggling to "get the words out." It's a developmental disorder affecting speech fluency caused ...

When Evan Usler was just 6 years old, he knew his stuttering would persist into adulthood. He was among the one in 10 children who develop a stutter at a young age. Most children who stutter recover ...

My colleague, Katie Schlagheck, Ohio State University Extension educator in Ottawa and Sandusky counties, wrote a great article a couple of months ago about stuttering in children. She specializes in ...

It can happen when a child is slow in language learning, but it can also be activated by the normal stresses that all kids go through, like a death in the family or moving to a new school and home. So ...

Until he was 3, Brandon Markosek was not able to talk. When he started speaking, he developed a stutter that lasted into adulthood. “Some days are better than others, but I still do stutter,” he said.

This is Stuttering Awareness Week, and it’s a very worthy thing to stay aware of. It afflicts many people, and new avenues of help and hope are available for many of those searching for solutions. The ...

"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 ...