“He sought professional help to address his stuttering and improve his speech fluency.”

“The McGuire programme, which helped him, also enabled Pop Idol Gareth Gates to overcome his stutter and go on to chart success.”

“One question had been put to the stutterer who, predictably, had muffed it badly.”

“For an antidote to the sugary Broadway show, I always wondered if at least one of the kids had a tin ear and the rhythm of a stutterer.”

“A college student of 19 was so severe a stutterer that his face during speech became grotesquely distorted.”

“Possibly stutterers may be shy or hostile because of developmental origins at an oral dependent-incorporative level.”

“But I know a number of stutterers now who I feel very sorry for, because I can see how inhibiting it is for them, and how crippling.”

“They found that a portion of Wernicke's area, which is believed to control language comprehension and auditory processing, was significantly enlarged in stutterers.”