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 ...

10-year-old Harriet Hewitt, the fourth-generation member of her family to stutter, took part in the global study with every generation up to her Great-Grandfather providing saliva samples to help map ...

Bill Walton died earlier this week at the age of 71 from cancer As a child, Maya Chupkov had what she describes as a “really debilitating stutter”. In kindergarten, she struggled to speak at all and ...

A study published in Nature Genetics has identified 48 genes and 57 genomic "hotspots" associated with stuttering, confirming its hereditary nature. The research analyzed DNA samples from one million ...