15 famous people who had a stutter

The former vice president's stutter has recently been reported on in the media. Plenty of celebrities have dealt with the ...
Newsweek

‘I’m a College Football Player With a Stutter—My Goal Is To Inspire Others’

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. My mom has told me that she first noticed I stuttered when I was around ...
ABC7 San Francisco

More Than My Stutter: Bay Area residents work to end the stigma of stuttering

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 ...
Fast Company

This group of 80 million is missing from DEI conversations

When Chris Gemmell first started job hunting after graduation, he did everything he could to avoid saying the word accountant in interviews. Despite looking for accountancy jobs, accountant was a word ...
Today

What parents and their children who stutter wish more people knew

"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 ...
The Conversation

What causes stuttering? A speech pathology researcher explains the science and the 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 ...
The Atlantic

Learning to Love to Stutter

Kenny Koroll, the chairman of the board at the National Stuttering Association (NSA), has a favorite phrase: “We are the cure.” He says it during the closing ceremony of this year’s NSA conference, to ...
WHYY

For some people who stutter, fluent speech is overrated

When I open my mouth to speak, sometimes the sentences flow with an effortlessness that most people take for granted. Other times my face clenches and the words come out in repetitive machine-gun ...
Education Week

How to Support Students Who Stutter in Class

As schools resume this fall, teachers may encounter students like Brayden Harrington, the 13-year-old Democratic National Convention speaker who shared the story of how Joe Biden, the party’s nominee ...
Mashable

Why this Houston Astros player has an inspiring mission beyond baseball

George Springer stepped up to the plate in the 11th inning of Game 2 of the World Series Wednesday night. Fans of both teams may not have been expecting much — throughout Game 1, the Houston Astros ...
The Washington Post

I stutter. As a result, I have been mocked, insulted, misjudged and refused service.

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 ...