As his peers prepared for another school year, then 7-year-old Cameron Coppen stood in front of his first grade class, prepared to address them. "I'm sure you have noticed that sometimes I get stuck ...
For the parents of children who stutter, managing the communication disorder alone can be stressful and isolating. At Saint Louis University’s Speech-Language and Hearing Clinic, one mother discovered ...
A University of Iowa faculty member has won funding from the National Institutes of Health to introduce a new approach to ...
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 ...
Grace Thomas, an undergraduate research assistant, dons the virtual reality headset during a demonstration of the lab's research methods in the Communication Arts and Sciences building on Michigan ...
Stuttering is a speech disorder that affects millions of people worldwide, causing disruptions in the flow of speech. For those who stutter, communicating can be a significant challenge, often leading ...
A bill that unanimously passed a House committee vote on Tuesday would mandate private insurers cover speech therapy for individuals with stutters. If the bill becomes law Pennsylvania would be among ...
(The Center Square) – Insurance coverage within the commonwealth will now include speech therapy for stuttering. Gov. Josh Shapiro signed the bill Wednesday after it cleared the Senate unanimously on ...
The advocate highlights how children bear the brunt of neglect in schools and families, and calls for a legal framework that ...
"What somebody who stutters has to say is just as important as what anybody else has to say: It just might take them a little longer to get it out.” As his peers prepared for another school year, then ...
Approximately five to ten percent of children will stutter for some period of time in their life, with 75% eventually recovering and the other 25% persisting, leading to a potentially lifelong ...