Oscar or not, "The King's Speech" is being applauded for other reasons. The movie shines the spotlight on the stuttering community. King George VI's stutter is the focus of "The King's Speech." The ...

Chupkov is executive director and host of Proud Stutter, a stuttering advocacy organization and podcast about shifting the narrative around stuttering. She lives in the Bay Area. Our culture has come ...

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 ...

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 ...

When 4-year-old Hazel Alexander was introduced to Gabriela McBride, she knew they would have an instant bond. Talking to her mom about her new "friend" -- who happens to be American Girl's Girl of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK, April 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Stuttering Foundation and The Michael Palin Centre for Stammering Children honored the Academy Award-winning film The King's Speech at a gala event in New ...

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 ...