About International Stuttering Awareness Day
Stuttering is a communication disorder in which the flow of speech is broken by repetitions, prolongations or abnormal stoppages of sounds and syllables. More than 70 million people worldwide stutter.
October 22nd was designated International Stuttering Awareness Day, or International Stammering Awareness Day as it is known in the UK and Ireland, in 1998.
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