FORT JACKSON, S.C. (Feb. 19, 2015) -- Kinley Johnston has speech issues that she grapples with daily. A third-grade student at C.C. Pinckney Elementary School, Johnston was born with a chromosomal ...

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 ...

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 ...

J. Scott Yaruss, associate professor in communication science and disorders at the University of Pittsburgh School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences and co-director of the Stuttering Center of ...

MELBOURNE, Aug. 26 (UPI) -- Preschoolers who stutter -- about 1-in-10 -- appear to do fine emotionally and socially at age 4, researchers in Australia and England say. Sheena Reilly of the University ...

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 ...

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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 ...

The School of Medicine at the University of California, Riverside, will serve as lead site for a Phase 2 clinical trial evaluating ecopipam, an investigational first-in-class drug being tested for the ...