Multimillion-dollar grant to fund more research into speech disorder
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Research on stuttering conducted at the University of Illinois during the...al factors, Ellen Kelly, Purdue. In many respects, stuttering is a disorder of early childhood, Yairi said, noting that close to 80 percent of children who stutte...Mechanism behind stuttering revealed
...en in Germany report that persistent developmental stuttering results from a disconnection of speech-related areas in the cortex. Persistent developmental stuttering affects 1% of people beyond puberty and has a genetic basis, but despite decades of research, the or......s and patterns of language disorders, ranging from stuttering and loss of speech to syndromes such as savant, Down's and William's syndrome. Professor Moira Yip, co-director of the Centre for Human Communication, says: "The whole field of speech, language and communication is exploding, fuelled partly by advanc...