Friends Who Stutter Conference is Saturday, April 25, 2015 at Chapman University
This is a reminder that Chapman University’s Communication Sciences and Disorders Master's program and The Stuttering Foundation's Friends Who Stutter Conference is this Saturday, April 25. This is the largest stuttering conference in California! This conference is designed to bring together young children, teenager, and adults who stutter, their parents, members of stuttering self-help groups, speech-language pathologists, and students interested in the topic of stuttering. Attendees will find support, information and meet other people dedicated to living [...]
Voice Therapy Helps Transgender Individuals Find Their Identity
Temmermand was on a fifty-year journey of transition from living life as a man into that of a woman. Although she’d come a long way, she still felt that something was still out-of-place. Her major concern was her voice. Her outward appearance was decidedly female, but she felt that her voice was still obviously masculine. So she sought help by [...]
Change in Venue for National Stuttering Association (NSA) Conference Announced
The NSA is Charming Baltimore in 2015! We may not be headed to Chicago after all, but we’ve been working around the clock to bring you the premier conference experience that you’ve come to expect from the NSA!  Instead, get ready to hit ‘Charm City’ in 2015!  Neatly nestled along the scenic water’s edge of the Inner Harbor, the Baltimore [...]
National Stuttering Association 2015 Conference: Head for Chicago!
NSA 2015: Magnificent Speech on the Magnificent Mile! Get ready to hit the windy city and experience the buzz of energy in the most-visited city in the Midwest - Chicago, Illinois, for the 32md Annual Conference to be held July 1 - 5, 2015 with our Research Symposium preceding the conference on June 30 & July 1. Go to http://www.westutter.org/annual-conference/ for [...]
Atypical Brain Development Linked to Stuttering
There have been multiple medical studies conducted on the region of the brain that controls speech in the hopes of discovering a direct cause for stuttering in both adults and children. The more recent research conducted by the University of Alberta suggests a pattern of abnormal development in the grey matter in the Broca’s area of the brain among those [...]
Study Conducted to Predict If Child Will Stutter Even Before Talking
The University of Sydney, Australia, is conducting ground-breaking research on a young 17-week old infant in the hopes of finding the cause of stuttering before the child has even learned to speak. 40 babies will take part in the years-long study, but young Levi Crellin will go down in history as the very first to participate. Stuttering runs in Levi’s [...]
