Typically, a stutter will resolve on its own by the time the child turns 5, but some children may benefit from professional help to reduce the effects of stuttering.

Toddlers may sometimes encounter pauses in speech and some levels of disfluencies while speaking, which is a normal aspect of developing communication skills. However, stuttering in toddlers is a ...

Stuttering is not confined to speech; handwriting can show signs of disfluencies with partial stroke repetitions, prolongations and hesitations.

The first sign of actor Bruce Willis' frontotemporal dementia was his language, however it was dismissed due to his ongoing struggle with a stutter.

“Bruce has always had a stutter, but he has been good at covering it up,” Heming Willis, 46, told Town & Country about the initial signs of the actor's frontotemporal dementia.

Bruce Willis showed signs of decline years before his aphasia diagnosis — but another condition he’d had since childhood kept wife Emma Heming Willis’ concerns at bay. “For Bruce, it ...