NIH 3.1 Million Grant Funds Research Identifying Risk Factors for Lifelong Stuttering
March 5, 2021 - Melissa Priebe
“Stuttering is more than disfluent speech. There’s so much more that children who stutter go through.”
Assistant Professor of Communicative Sciences and Disorders Bridget Walsh, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, will study the risk factors in children that lead to chronic stuttering in adulthood, in a research project funded by a $3.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. Her research focuses on a narrow window of early childhood, when stuttering emerges.