Jason Heffler, the author of a new children's book Tongue Tied, is encouraging celebrities to speak out about their stutters because kids who struggle with the speech impediment still feel isolated.

"It feels like you've got this imposter living in your body," the actress, 37, tells PEOPLE Morgan Smith is a former editorial assistant at PEOPLE. She left PEOPLE in 2021. Emily Blunt’s career, quite ...

Stuttering is a common speech disorder that can significantly impact an individual’s ability to communicate effectively. While it can be a challenging condition to manage, there are effective ...

President Joe Biden, Ed Sheeran and more have talked about their experiences struggling with — and surmounting — a stutter. Read their personal stories Some of the most influential people in the world ...

In February, Presidential candidate Joe Biden opened up about his lifelong stutter during a CNN town hall. "It has nothing to do with your intelligence quotient. It has nothing to do with your ...

Stuttering is a speech disorder. There are various ways to stop or reduce a stutter. These include mindfulness, avoiding triggering words, and speech therapy. Stuttering affects more than 70 million ...

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A writer with a stutter offers a thought-provoking defence of disfluency and takes a sideswipe at Freud ...

Stuttering, or stammering, occurs when a person repeats or stumbles over a sound, syllable or word. Certain syllables may be repeated or prolonged, words escape in fits and starts, and can at times be ...

The medical condition, “disfluent speech” or “dysfluent speech” is commonly referred to as “stuttering” in American English. In British English, the condition is called “stammering.” The terms ...