Definition
Stuttering is defined as an involuntary interruption in the natural flow of speech. It is characterized by part-word repetitions, prolongations, and blocks.
Prevalence and Incidence
About 5 percent of preschoolers stutter. After the age of six or seven years old about 80 percent of the preschooler recover. Therefore, there are about 1 percent of adults who stutter in any population.
Development
Stuttering is one of the most debilitating disorders for children and adults. It usually starts in the preschool years when a child is first starting to put words together. About 80% of preschoolers recover without any treatment. Thus, the remaining 20% will grow up to be adult stutterers and will need treatment.
This is what really drove me to my stuttering therapy….the pain of stuttering. For me, the thing that really held me back, while I was still stuttering, was not the stuttering itself. I felt that I could hide the stuttering – sometimes at least. Here are the ways that I hid my stuttering: Kept my […]
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I hated my stuttering!! Sitting in the back of the room, avoiding conversations, missing out on the good jobs, and not meeting new people because of this embarrassing problem? This is why I hated my stuttering Hi. My name is Mark Power and for 35 years I felt like a misfit and an alien. No
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I want to talk to the people who stutter who are reading this blog. Recently, I have been to several workshop and seminars that present information to people who stutter and speech-language pathologists The message I hear most clearly is that stuttering is OK and is not the fault of the person who stammers. This
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Researching stuttering treatments is really not very hard. So, by using scientific studies of treatment results, you can select effective therapy for stuttering. PubMed is one of the best search tools for online research and is provided free of cost by the National Institutes of Health at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed How to search PubMed The problem lies
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People have probably told you that all you need to do is just “SLOW DOWN” and “THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU WANT TO SAY”. I know that I heard that a lot when I was stuttering severely. The problem was that I tried that many times and I just couldn’t do it. I couldn’t just slow
Stuttering Modification techniques were developed by Charles Van Riper in the 1930s. Clinicians wanted to teach clients to “stutter more easily”. They taught techniques to reduce tension by training muscle relaxation during the moments of stuttering. Some of these procedures are “pull-outs” (reducing tension during the stuttering moment) and “cancellations” (completing the stuttering moment and
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This is MY Story – A Stutterer’s Story My name is Mark Power and for 35 years I felt like a misfit and an alien. No matter where I went, I could not escape my stuttering problem and my hatred of talking. I hated the sound of my own voice. At my school, there was one other
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