Summary

Gabriel Mbamaonyeukwu

Amber Dance, “The new neuroscience of stuttering”, 09.02.2020

The article “The new neuroscience of stuttering” is about Chang has also observed structural differences in the corpus callosum, the big bundle of nerve fibers that links the left and right hemispheres of the brain. These findings show that stuttering might result from slight delays in communication between parts of the brain. It also talks about how 80 percent of kids who do stutter grow up to have normal speech patterns and on the other hand, 20 percent continue to stutter into adulthood. It also says that stuttering begins around the age of 2.