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Kirkup Center for the Medical Treatment of Stuttering

If you suffer from stuttering, you are not alone. The disorder affects nearly three million Americans, and more men are affected than women. Although there is no cure, the condition is treatable.

Now there is hope from a medical perspective to comprehensively treat stuttering and its associated symptoms. At our center, led by Director Gerald A. Maguire, MD, we use a combination of medications, psychotherapy and speech therapy to improve how you speak and restore your confidence.

We are the only center in the world specializing in the medical treatment of stuttering.

To make an appointment, call 714-456-5902 or email Dr. Maguire.

  • The Kirkup Center for the Medical Treatment of Stuttering is the only center in the world that specializes in the medical treatment of stuttering.
  • We have conducted research into many available medications that have been shown to reduce the symptoms of stuttering.
  • Our treatments are comprehensive, working on a number of fronts to reduce stuttering.

We treat tic disorders and stuttering, a speech disorder in which words and sounds are involuntarily repeated or lengthened.

Symptoms

Symptoms include:

  • Frequent pauses
  • Repetition of words or phrases
  • Prolonged syllables
  • Face or upper body twitching while struggling to pronounce words correctly

Stuttering tends to run in families and affects one percent of the population, nearly three million people. Signs of stuttering often emerge in early childhood as language first develops and occurs more often in boys. 

There is no cure for stuttering, but with medication and other therapies, we can significantly reduce your symptoms.

Treatments

We treat older children, teens and adults. We care for the people we see with a unique combination of services grounded in the latest scientific research and medical advancements.

We use different medications that have been found to be effective in individuals who stutter. They work by targeting the chemicals that send signals of information between brain cells (selective neurotransmitters). By changing how these chemicals act, the timing of your speech is improved and stuttering is reduced.

In conjunction with medications, we work with speech language pathologists to improve your speech.

Make an Appointment

714-456-5902

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