Stuttering (known as stammering in the UK and scientifically known as dysphemia) is a speech disorder in which the flow of speech is disrupted by prolongations, repetitions, and blocks of sounds, syllables, words or phrases..

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Not Every Stutterer Is A Problem Case: Over-reacting Can Make Stuttering Worse (February 17, 2006) — If a child often stops in the middle of a sentence and repeats individual sounds or syllables, this does not inevitably mean that the child is a stutterer. A lot of repetitions, pauses or fillers are … > read more

Stuttering More Than Talk – Research Shows Brain’s Role In Disorder (July 23, 2004) — New research from Purdue University shows that even when people who stutter are not speaking, their brains process language … > read more

New Approach Helps Stuttering Children Cope With Bullying, Teasing (January 31, 2005) — A new book from a Purdue University speech-language pathologist says more needs to be done to address the bullying that often results in more anxiety for children who stutter than the speech disorder … > read more

Study Ties Stuttering To Anatomical Differences In The Brain (July 31, 2001) — Stuttering has been long thought to be caused by emotional factors, but researchers who studied adults with persistent stuttering found that these individuals had anatomical irregularities in the … > read more

Childhood Apraxia Of Speech Cases On The Rise (October 30, 2007) — Speech pathologists report an increasing number of patients diagnosed with childhood apraxia of speech, a motor speech disorder in which children have difficulty saying basic sounds and words. As a … > read more