The Southern Illinoisan

What causes stuttering? A speech pathologist explains the science and misconceptions around this speech disorder

The majority of children who stutter will spontaneously recover from it without intervention, but some 20% of people do not. fizkes/iStock via Getty Images Plus What comes to mind when you think of ...
Los Angeles Times

Stutter that ‘propelled’ Bruce Willis into acting also masked his dementia, his wife says

Bruce Willis showed signs of decline years before his aphasia diagnosis — but another condition he’d had since childhood kept wife Emma Heming Willis’ concerns at bay. “For Bruce, it started with ...
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Speech Struggle: What Causes Stuttering?

ORLANDO, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) --- More than 80 million people worldwide stutter and in the United States, over three million Americans stutter. Approximately 5% of all children go through a period ...
People

How James Earl Jones Worked Through a Stutter and Several 'Mute Years' Thanks to a Wise Teacher

James Earl Jones once said his high school English teacher "began to challenge and nudge me toward speaking again" through poetry Hilaria McCarthy/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty James Earl Jones ...
Variety

Emily Blunt Says Living With a Stutter Is Like Having an ‘Imposter’ in Your Body ‘Who Doesn’t Pay Rent’

Presented by Krista Phillips, the Head of Consumer Cards & Marketing at Wells Fargo, Phillips applauded Blunt’s continuous work with the institute, “She works with children and parents affected by ...