Therapist and person who stutters Sam Gennuso shares honest insight and strategies for taking care of your emotional well-being. You are not alone.

Learn how to support and encourage a child who stutters with patience, understanding, and expert-backed strategies.

Medication for stuttering has always captured the imagination of people who stutter and their families. In the future we are not likely...

While there is currently no cure for stuttering that works consistently, across time, for all people, there are various options that may help people who stutter. Some methods focus on promoting confident and effective communication, facilitating desensitization to stuttering, practicing mindfulness, modifying speech, and/or exploring stuttering acceptance. Like any good treatment, help for people who stutter should be tailored to the individual. In other words, what works for

What Is Stuttering? Stuttering  is a natural variation in speech  in which the timing and flow of spoken language include moments of repetition, prolongation, or blocking  of sounds and words. These moments are simply examples of the many ways humans produce speech. Commonly Observed Features Repetitions  – repeating sounds, syllables, or words (e.g., “I-I-I want to go”). Prolongations  – stretching out a sound (e.g., “ssssun”). Blocks  – pauses where speech momentarily stops