IOWA CITY, Iowa -- For six months, Mary Nixon and 10 other orphans were relentlessly belittled for every little imperfection in their speech to test the theory that children become stutterers because ...

DES MOINES — Participants in a University of Iowa stuttering experiment six decades ago and the families of now-deceased participants are seeking $10.5 million in damages from the state. The ...

Almost 70 years after orphans were pressured to stutter as part of a speech experiment at the University of Iowa, the State of Iowa has agreed to pay them $925,000 to settle a lawsuit. The six ...

The state has agreed to pay $925,000 to unwitting subjects of an infamous 1930s stuttering experiment -- orphans who were badgered and belittled as children by University of Iowa researchers trying to ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — The state has agreed to pay $925,000 to unwitting subjects of an infamous 1930s stuttering experiment — orphans who were badgered and belittled as children by University of Iowa ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Lawyers have negotiated a settlement in a lawsuit filed by orphans who claim they were damaged emotionally after serving as subjects in a stuttering experiment at the ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — A state board approved a court settlement of a lawsuit that claimed orphans were used as research subjects in a University of Iowa study of stuttering. The case will cost the state ...

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) -- Lawyers are trying to negotiate the settlement of at least five lawsuits filed by orphans who claim they were damaged emotionally after serving as subjects in a stuttering ...

The Guenther Lab, a neuroscience lab researching speech movement at Boston University, published a scientific paper late last semester connecting stutters with a malfunction in the brain’s initiation ...

The PURDUE STUTTERING PROJECT is no longer recruiting new participants as we are in the final stages of data analyses and working on final publications describing our research. The project was founded ...

DES MOINES — Participants in a University of Iowa stuttering experiment six decades ago and the families of now-deceased participants are seeking $10.5 million in damages from the state. The ...