The unprecedented Oscar success of 'King's Speech' has brought much world attention to the baffling speech problem of stammering. In the movie it is Duke of York (the king-to-be of England) who ...

Eighty million people around the world have a natural stammer. Krupa Padhy speaks to those who've decided to embrace it – and discovers surprising benefits. It was the summer of 2011 and Joshua St ...

When we delve into stuttering causes, we find that no single, exclusive cause of developmental stuttering can be identified. Genetic basis can be recognised as one of the most substantial pieces of ...

Shadow chancellor Ed Balls, who suffers from a stammer, has hailed the "fabulous example" of schoolboy Musharaf Asghar whose battle against a speech disorder in a bid to gain an English GCSE was ...

Joe Biden’s election as president of the United States rekindled interest in accomplishments by adults who stutter. Biden has struggled with a stutter since childhood. A list of stutters compiled at ...

His most notable film, where Colin Firth embodied a stammer, is The King's Speech where he plays the character of King George VI. "It had an effect on my body – headaches," Firth began. "I had to ...