SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- It's estimated that more than 79 million people worldwide live with a stutter. In the Bay Area, there's a small but mighty group looking to spread awareness and acceptance of ...

I should write this first, since it’s what people notice first: I stutter when I talk. I involuntarily extend certain letters or sounds and, more conspicuously, experience total “blocks,” wherein my ...

I was waiting in line at my bank’s drive-up service, hoping to make a quick withdrawal. I debated my options: two vacant service lines and one busy one for the ATM. The decision was easy: Wait in the ...

I remember the first time I saw my disability. I was checking my makeup in a mirror and telling my parents about my evening plans to go to a movie with friends. But I couldn’t say the word “movie”—or ...

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 ...

I’m a person who stutters. I’m also a cantor in the Conservative movement. My Jewish and stuttering identities feel increasingly intertwined, as both are related to the experience of time. As a person ...

I can’t say my own name without stuttering. It’s perhaps the most common and cruelest joke played on the nearly 300,000 Texans—about 1 percent of the population—who live with this speech impediment, ...

What I remember most about my stutter is not the stupefying vocal paralysis, the pursed eyes or the daily ordeal of gagging on my own speech, sounds ricocheting off the back of my teeth like pennies ...

In the short period since my debut novel was published on February 5, I have found myself in a position familiar to many writers on book tour: reading to large (and sometimes not-so-large) crowds and ...