I spent years of my childhood believing in a singular fallacy: fluency = success. In my early adulthood, the equation expanded to include stuttering = failure (along with unemployment, loneliness, and ...

Today begins National Stuttering Awareness Week, a weeklong spotlight on the condition affecting more than 70 million people worldwide. For this year’s celebration, we are focused on fighting myths ...

Myth: People who stutter are not smart. Reality: There is no link between stuttering and intelligence. Myth: Nervousness causes stuttering. Reality: Nervousness does not cause stuttering. Nor should ...

Nervousness. Stress. Shyness. Speaking more than one language. Thinking too quickly. None of these are reasons why people stutter. Yet, these misconceptions remain all too prevalent, says Angela ...

Xiaofan Lei receives funding from the University of Minnesota and the National Stuttering Association. What comes to mind when you think of someone who stutters? Is that person male or female? Are ...

Gaming myths persist across forums, YouTube tutorials, and social media posts, often misleading players into chasing tweaks that deliver little to no improvement. FPS myths about RAM speed, VSync ...

In mainstream media, stuttering is often comical or a symptom in people who are overly vulnerable and nervous. But the condition doesn’t stem at all from nerves or anxiety … and instead of a source of ...

Stuttering affects a little less than 1 percent of the population, though many children go through phases of pseudo-stuttering. Stuttering is not caused by nervousness. The exact causes aren’t known, ...

Filling in the gaps about the genetic risk factors of stuttering may help scientists shatter stigmas and discover new therapies. Most mammals communicate vocally but humans are unique in their ability ...

According to the National Stuttering Association (NSA), approximately one percent of the world's population stutters. That means over 3 million American adults stutter. These statistics pushed ...

Heartwarming though the movie "The King's Speech" is, as someone who married a stutterer and is the mother of a stutterer, I'm not sure it does anything to put myths about stuttering to rest. Perhaps ...