According to an article published in the Toronto Star by Genevra Pittman on Aug. 26, 2013, more than one in 10 kids had a stutter by age 4, but those kids scored just as high or higher than their peers on assessments. Children who stutter scored 5.5 points higher than their non-stuttering peers on language tests and 2.6 points higher on a test of non-verbal intelligence. The researchers from the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute in Australia stated it’s possible stuttering could somehow improve language skills, or that stuttering could result from very fast language development among some kids.
