As Robert F. Kennedy Jr. answered questions during the second day of the Senate confirmation hearings for his nomination to head the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, many people have ...

Kennedy has said he has spasmodic dysphonia. It is a voice disorder characterized by involuntary spasms in the muscles that control the vocal cords, or folds. This causes difficulty in speaking ...

Kennedy has a rare disorder called spasmodic dysphonia — a spasm of the vocal muscles. Kennedy is one of an estimated 50,000 people in North America with spasmodic dysphonia, a neurological ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has a disorder called spasmodic dysphonia that makes it sound like his voice is shaking. He has said the neurological disease began to affect him when he was 42.