Children who stutter should be treated before they start school to improve the speech disorder that affects about 5 percent of youngsters, Australian scientists said on Friday. Stuttering, or ...

Stuttering is best treated early, before children start school, according to new evidence published in this week's BMJ. About 5% of children begin to stutter, usually in the third and fourth years of ...

Nan Bernstein Ratner does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations ...

A new study has found children who stutter should be treated before they start school to improve the speech disorder that affects about 5 per cent of youngsters. Stuttering, or stammering, usually ...

Mark Onslow receives funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia and the Australia Research Council. Most speech and language disorders of early childhood are obvious ...

We take issue with some of Peter Howell's statements about stuttering (Nature 470, 7; 2011). Most of these relate to the Lidcombe programme for reducing stuttering, which we developed with colleagues ...