Jill Feldbaum Speech and Language Pathology

10/09/2026

Simon Cowell is well-known across the globe as an English television personality, entrepreneur, and record executive.

09/08/2026

Behind a celebrated career is a childhood experience Kidman has discussed with unusual candor: her stutter. For years, she described it as something she had gradually grown out of, while also connecting it with the deep shyness she continued to experience.

But in a 2026 interview with Attitude while promoting Practical Magic 2, Kidman offered a more complete picture. She said she still occasionally has a brief moment of stuttering, but has learned a technique to manage it.

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09/05/2026

AuDHD Explained Audhd Awareness: Understanding the Full Spectrum of Neurodivergence Conditions

Neurodivergence is often reduced to just two words in most conversations, autism and ADHD, as if those two conditions represent the entire spectrum of brains that process the world differently. The reality is far broader.
Autism Spectrum Disorder and ADHD sit under this umbrella, but so do conditions rarely mentioned in the same breath. Dyslexia affects how the brain processes written language, while dyscalculia does the same for numbers and mathematical reasoning. Dyspraxia influences motor coordination and physical planning in ways that can make everyday movement genuinely effortful. Tourette Syndrome brings involuntary movements and vocalizations that are neurological in origin, not a matter of choice or control.
The umbrella extends further still. OCD, often reduced in public conversation to a punchline about tidiness, is actually a serious condition built around intrusive thoughts and compulsive responses. Developmental Language Disorder affects communication in ways distinct from autism, while synesthesia creates genuine cross-sensory experiences, sound perceived as color, numbers perceived as spatial patterns. Epilepsy, intellectual disabilities, and acquired brain injury round out a list that makes clear just how wide neurodivergence actually stretches.
Recognizing this full spectrum is not about diluting any single diagnosis, it is about accuracy. Every one of these conditions represents a genuinely different way of experiencing and processing the world, and none of them are lesser or more legitimate than the others. The more this full picture gets understood, the less any one experience gets flattened into a stereotype that was never big enough to hold it in the first place.

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Illustration of Neurodivergence Umbrella

09/04/2026

Actor Homer Gere has become the latest performer to disclose that he stutters. The 26-year-old is the son of Oscar-nominated actor Richard Gere and actor Carey Lowell, best known for her starring role on Law & Order from 1996 to 2001. He was raised in Pound Ridge, New York, and graduated from Brown....

08/25/2026

The Porter Wagoner Show Season 7 Episode 143Dated: 10-4-1967R...

08/25/2026

A new study shows an alarming rate of CTE among former NFL players: At least 1 in 4 who died from 2016 to 2021 had the degenerative brain disease. And the rate might be even higher.

Read more: https://nyti.ms/3UBBJVU

08/19/2026

08/13/2026

We're marking the birthday of the late, great Mel Tillis, a fixture on our list of famous people who stutter, as well as a former spokesperson and honorary chairman of the Stuttering Foundation. READ MORE: https://www.stutteringhelp.org/content/remembering-mel-tillis

08/13/2026

08/11/2026

From "Treating the School-Age Child Who Stutters": https://www.stutteringhelp.org/training/treating-school-age-child-who-stutters