Welcome to the Kirkup Center for the Medical Treatment of Stuttering
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More than 3 million U.S. children, teens and adults suffer from a chronic stuttering disorder.
Stuttering patterns are often unique to each individual, and treatment
modalities are also unique to patients. However, most stuttering patterns
are marked by repetitions of syllables, long silences and the contortion
of a person’s face as they try to speak.
Stuttering is believed to have a genetic component; it tends to run
in families.
Stuttering affects more men than women; approximately 4 to 1.
About 75 percent of children who stutter outgrow the disorder without
intervention.
Some 20 percent of children go through a development stage when stuttering
is severe enough to be a parental concern. Here, the best prevention
tool is early intervention.
“Person who stutters” is now the correct phrase, replacing
“stutterer.”
Famous folks who stuttered: Marilyn Monroe, James Earl Jones, Lewis
Carroll, Carly Simon, Sir Isaac Newton, Winston Churchill, Tiger Woods,
Bruce Willis, Sen. Joe Biden Jr., John Stossel, Bill Walton, John Updike.
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