I just defended my master thesis successfully. But the process of preparing the presentation for me was not so simple. It took one day for me to prepare the presentation and more than one week for ...

I should write this first, since it’s what people notice first: I stutter when I talk. I involuntarily extend certain letters or sounds and, more conspicuously, experience total “blocks,” wherein my ...

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I sat on the bathroom floor, dizzy and nauseated, picturing the stage where I would give a reading the next day. Months ago, in a more optimistic moment, I had agreed to perform in a public reading ...

I am Ken Steinhardt, a severe stutterer. I block up on feared words and in feared situations. When I speak, first I feel fear. Then I stutter. Then I feel shame about my stutter. I stutter more with ...

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 ...

Reporting from Houston — George Springer begins to speak, hesitates, continues, pauses, then finishes with a perfectly pronounced recitation of one of the most important lessons of this World Series. ...

When I saw Brayden Harrington, the 13-year-old from New Hampshire, stutter openly and authentically on national television, I saw myself, a version of myself I wish I had been at Brayden’s age. At 13, ...

Joe Biden has been open about his lifelong struggle with a stutter. Thirteen-year-old Brayden Harrington bravely shared Thursday night how he and former Vice President Joe Biden “are members of the ...