What I remember most about my stutter is not the stupefying vocal paralysis, the pursed eyes or the daily ordeal of gagging on my own speech, sounds ricocheting off the back of my teeth like pennies ...

The post Kid’s Epic Meltdowns At Speech Therapy Made Him Quit, So His Brothers Never Got Treatment, And Now The Family Feels The Ripple Effects first on TwistedSifter. A family shares a genetic ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- It's estimated that more than 79 million people worldwide live with a stutter. In the Bay Area, there's a small but mighty group looking to spread awareness and acceptance of ...

Char Adams is a Human Interest writer and reporter at PEOPLE. She also writes about her experiences on her blog and vlog, The Stuttering Journalist. I’m one of the three million people in the United ...

I was waiting in line at my bank’s drive-up service, hoping to make a quick withdrawal. I debated my options: two vacant service lines and one busy one for the ATM. The decision was easy: Wait in the ...

I remember the first time I saw my disability. I was checking my makeup in a mirror and telling my parents about my evening plans to go to a movie with friends. But I couldn’t say the word “movie”—or ...

I’m a person who stutters. I’m also a cantor in the Conservative movement. My Jewish and stuttering identities feel increasingly intertwined, as both are related to the experience of time. As a person ...

Moving through the world, leaving in my wake what feels like a trail of discomfited strangers, I’ve come to fear the sight of ...

I can’t say my own name without stuttering. It’s perhaps the most common and cruelest joke played on the nearly 300,000 Texans—about 1 percent of the population—who live with this speech impediment, ...

Stand-up comedian Drew Lynch developed his stutter from a softball accident that caused a traumatic brain injury, ending his ...