Reasonable rebuttals to conventional wisdom are important — even if they’re wrong, they force us to consider why we believe what we believe. As someone deeply invested in the cause of campus free ...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic, often progressive disease that affects the central nervous system, including the brain, spinal cord, and optic nerves. While the most common symptoms include ...

The presence of speech patterns in people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), commonly called autism, is linked to problems in social communication and social interaction that define ASD. These ...

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Britain, as every American knows, has a free speech problem. As a Brit, though, I am starting to wonder whether the United States might be developing a free speech problem of its own. The question ...

Xiaofan Lei receives funding from the University of Minnesota and the National Stuttering Association. What comes to mind when you think of someone who stutters? Is that person male or female? Are ...

Holidays are a time for visiting. My own very large, boisterous extended family includes nephews and neices with physical and cognitive limitations, older people with serious hearing problems, and ...