>"Do people who stutter usually have a harder time understanding what others say?" According to a research [study ](https://academic.oup.com/cercor/article/33/11/6834/6995383?login=false)from 2023: *"Emerging evidence suggests stuttering may involve broader neurocognitive disruptions including in language prediction, comprehension, and reading processing."* For example, above research found that *adults who stutter (AWS)* show a reduced N400 effect, a brain signal associated with word comprehension and semantic processing. Exhibited increased frontal alpha-beta power (8–30 Hz), a sign of compensatory motor control involvement during comprehension. Another [research ](https://languagetestingasia.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/2229-0443-1-2-7)suggests: *"They struggled with reading comprehension, especially due to limited use of metacognitive strategies e.g., monitoring understanding, rereading"*