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13 Popular Myths About Stuttering – A Condition that Affects 70 Million People

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Stuttering is a neurodevelopmental disorder that affects about 1% of the world’s population. Despite being a disorder, people mistake stuttering to be a mild condition. According to Dennis Drayna, a scientist emeritus with the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders and a pioneer in the field of the genetics of stuttering, “People who stutter have no problems with …

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