ABSTRACT – Stuttering also known as stammering or diffluent speech is a speech disorder which disrupts the normal fluency...
Stuttering
Stuttering also known as stammering or diffluent speech is a speech disorder which disrupts the normal fluency or flow of speech. The sounds, syllables, words or a consonant are repeated or prolonged which make it difficult to communicate with other people.
CAUSES –
- Hereditary factors
- Emotional trauma and distress
- Feeling nervous or pressurized on certain situations
- Stroke
- Traumatic brain injury
- Other brain disorders
SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS –
- Difficulty to start a word, phrase or sentence while speaking
- Extend a word or sounds for long time
- Repeating the same sound, syllable or word
- Takes pauses and anxious while talking
- Changes in body language
- Can’t communicate efficiently
- Constant eye blinking
- Tremors in the lips or jaw
- Facial tics
- Head jerks
- Clenching fists
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