Okay, I’ll admit it up front. I chose the word “discriminate” on purpose. This word gets a lot of play in the press right now. Discrimination between people based on color or belief is bad. However, speech therapists use it to describe something different and every child needs...

Although I’m not a person who stutters, I clearly remember an incident in my childhood when I was disfluent. Developmental disfluency is occasionally repeating words and syllables as opposed to more frequent and severe true stuttering. It gives me a little window into the world of children...