“Did you forget your name?” someone asked me at a networking event for marketing professionals a few years ago after it took me almost a minute to say it. “No, I stutter,” I politely replied. “Oh my ...

Ask Tariq Carpenter and Juanyeh Thomas how they became such fast friends, and they laugh at the memory. Well, more accurately, Carpenter’s face spreads into a slow smile while Thomas laughs outright.

I’m one of the three million people in the United States who stutter. And although about one percent of the world’s population stutters, the nature of the condition has long been misunderstood. Like ...

Jason Heffler, the author of a new children's book Tongue Tied, is encouraging celebrities to speak out about their stutters because kids who struggle with the speech impediment still feel isolated.

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- As it turns out, a speech impediment is a common problem, and there are ways parents can help their kids overcome it. Poet Amanda Gorman, who was invited to read her own poem ...

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 ...

While many people with speech impediments try not to speak a lot because they are self-conscious about it, soon-to-be NFL wide receiver KC Concepcion does the opposite. The former Texas A&M Aggies ...

NFL Draft prospect KC Concepcion isn't letting the draft-season noise drown out his voice. After a clip of the star wide receiver during his media availability surfaced online, some social media ...