This year, the Center for Plain Language is holding its first contest for best and worst language use.

VOA: special.2010.04.30

Annetta Cheek heads the Center for Plain Language in Silver Spring,Maryland.

VOA: special.2010.04.30

But in a published commentary on the research,Simon Fisher, a speech and language researcher at the Wellcome Trust Center for Human Genetics at Oxford University cautions that before researchers can develop a drug therapy for stuttering,they will need to learn much more about the precise biochemical mechanism of the disorder.

VOA: standard.2010.02.11