SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — In her San Francisco home, Maya Chupkov is prepping to interview someone for her podcast. Something she may not have dreamed possible when she was growing up. That’s because Maya ...
I was waiting in line at my bank's drive-up service, hoping to make a quick withdrawal. I debated my options: two vacant service lines and one busy one for the ATM. The decision was easy: Wait in the ...
Chupkov is executive director and host of Proud Stutter, a stuttering advocacy organization and podcast about shifting the narrative around stuttering. She lives in the Bay Area. Our culture has come ...
A sophomore at Clark-Shawnee High School is making a difference in her community by bringing stutter awareness to the middle school. Stuttering Awareness Day is internationally recognized on Oct. 22, ...
Until he was 3, Brandon Markosek was not able to talk. When he started speaking, he developed a stutter that lasted into adulthood. “Some days are better than others, but I still do stutter,” he said.
The majority of children who stutter will spontaneously recover from it without intervention, but some 20% of people do not. fizkes/iStock via Getty Images Plus What comes to mind when you think of ...
Since formation, the close-knit support group has met once a month at UMD on the third Wednesdays 5:30-7:30 p.m. Normally the group consists of people who stutter, family members and speech and ...
The first time I learned about Joe Biden's stutter was late 2008. I was home in Iowa during my first winter break in college, just in time to experience the wild Iowa caucus season. I didn't see Biden ...