Children who stutter are imitating a stuttering parent or relative.
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Identifying or labeling a child as a stutterer results in chronic stuttering.
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Stuttering is caused by bad parenting.
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Stuttering is more common among males than females.
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Stuttering is associated with differences in the brain; it is not just a behavior that children learn or pick up from listening to other people who stutter.
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Stuttering usually begins in childhood, between the ages of 2 and 5 years.
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People who stutter can overcome the burden of stuttering and live full lives regardless of whether or how much they stutter.
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Stuttering is just a habit that people can break if they want to.
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Stuttering varies across situations: sometimes people stutter a lot, and sometimes they stutter a little.
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Overall, about 1% of the worldโs population stutters,
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When people stutter, they feel like they have lost control of their speech mechanism.