Many people consider stuttering just a simple speech disorder. But University of Mississippi professor Gregory Snyder and a team of student researchers are working to upend that thinking and develop ...

The state of Iowa has been sued on behalf of five orphans who were "taught" to stutter as part of research conducted by a renowned speech pathologist in 1939. The six-month research project at the ...

A tiny Australian songbird may hold the answer to discovering the biological source of stuttering, which affects 3 million Americans and is notoriously difficult to treat. A team of Michigan State ...

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 ...

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) -- Five former orphans who spoke normally until they took part in a 1939 University of Iowa experiment on stuttering are suing the state for negligence, fraud and conspiracy. The ...

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.