IOWA CITY, Iowa -- For six months, Mary Nixon and 10 other orphans were relentlessly belittled for every little imperfection in their speech to test the theory that children become stutterers because ...

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) -- A judge is considering whether to dismiss a lawsuit filed against the state by six former orphans who took part in a University of Iowa stuttering experiment more than 60 years ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Lawyers have negotiated a settlement in a lawsuit filed by orphans who claim they were damaged emotionally after serving as subjects in a stuttering experiment at the ...

DES MOINES — Participants in a University of Iowa stuttering experiment six decades ago and the families of now-deceased participants are seeking $10.5 million in damages from the state. The ...

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) -- Lawyers are trying to negotiate the settlement of at least five lawsuits filed by orphans who claim they were damaged emotionally after serving as subjects in a stuttering ...

IOWA CITY (AP) — The Iowa Supreme Court on Friday kept alive a lawsuit filed by orphans who claimed lifelong psychological suffering after unwittingly becoming subjects of a University of Iowa ...

A global study has identified the DNA markers for stuttering, providing a genetic link that will pave the way for clinicians to predict which family members will experience the speech disorder ...

ALL RIGHT. FIVE ON YOUR MENTAL HEALTH. NOW, THE SCIENCE BEHIND STUTTERING. WHAT’S NORMAL AND WHAT’S NOT FOR YOUR TODDLER. HERE TO TALK ABOUT THAT DOCTOR ERIKA LEE, A PSYCHOLOGIST AT BOSTON CHILDREN’S ...

An international research group succeeded in identifying the probable origin of stuttering in the brain. An international research group led by researchers from the University of Turku and Turku ...

To the editor: We read with interest your Aug. 6 article, "Lawsuit filed over 1939 experiment to induce stuttering," regarding the research on stuttering and orphans. In the intervening years, no ...

Stuttering affects many people; indeed, the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) estimates that stuttering affects approximately 1% of the world’s population (including about three ...