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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...