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How Stuttering Works

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The History of Stuttering

The Emperor Justinian apparently had one. Demosthenes hired an actor to help him with a stutter. Erasmus Darwin said it was bashfulness, emotions like bashfulness that messed up the process of speaking. Hola mijente! We're going to come back after this break and talk about therapies that don't involve cutting your tongue apart.

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