Around 1% of people make calls, socialize and join meetings with it. Stuttering is common, and yet the precise genetic cause remains elusive. Here are the key questions and answers for World ...
Jennifer (Piper) Below, PhD, and colleagues conducted the largest genetic analysis of stuttering to date, demonstrating a clear genetic basis for the speech disorder and highlighting neurological ...
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 ...
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Stuttering affects many people; indeed, the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) estimates that stuttering affects approximately 1% of the world’s population (including about three ...
Karen Hopkin: This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science. I’m Karen Hopkin. Hopkin: When you stop to think about it, it’s not all that easy to speak. First you have to think of something to say.