How can a layperson assist with stuttering research, or make baby steps towards slowly getting into research?

How can a layperson assist with stuttering research, or make baby steps towards slowly getting into research? Asking this as a PWS myself! Stuttering is something that I feel is under-researched, and I'd like to be a part of the solution on this front. I'd consider myself a layperson in the area. While I have a bachelor's and master's degree in STEM, I don't have any formal background in speech pathology per se, other than my own informal self-education and my life as a PWS. I'd love suggestions from anyone, particularly speech therapists and researchers in the area, about how someone like me could go about contributing to and participating in research.