Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. HAVERTOWN, PA — About 1 percent of the population in the United States are people who stutter. While pop culture has often painted ...

According to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, roughly 3 million Americans stutter. Stuttering affects people of all ages. While 75% of children recover from ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- San Francisco is considering legislation to urge California to declare a Stuttering Awareness Week. If passed, it would be May 8 to May 13. It is estimated more than 70 million ...

Oscar or not, "The King's Speech" is being applauded for other reasons. The movie shines the spotlight on the stuttering community. King George VI's stutter is the focus of "The King's Speech." The ...

Maya Chupkov has all the words to say about stuttering. She didn’t always. The Burbank native remembers interminable days as a fourth-grader, being singled out of class to attend speech therapy. “I ...

When 4-year-old Hazel Alexander was introduced to Gabriela McBride, she knew they would have an instant bond. Talking to her mom about her new "friend" -- who happens to be American Girl's Girl of the ...

Many people consider stuttering just a simple speech disorder. But University of Mississippi professor Gregory Snyder and a team of student researchers are working to upend that thinking and develop ...

Chupkov is executive director and host of Proud Stutter, a stuttering advocacy organization and podcast about shifting the narrative around stuttering. She lives in the Bay Area. Our culture has come ...

My friend Lee Caggiano, who died several weeks ago, was not famous. But through her work, she changed one particular corner of the world: Lee made people who stutter, like me, want to talk. Like 99 ...