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Combat Stuttering (Tips & Tricks to Help Combat Stuttering)
Combat Stuttering (Tips & Tricks to Help Combat Stuttering)
Combat Stuttering (Tips & Tricks to Help Combat Stuttering)
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What is stuttering?

Stuttering affects the fluency of speech. It begins during childhood and, in some cases, lasts throughout life. The disorder is characterized by disruptions in the production of speech sounds, also called "disfluencies." Most people produce brief disfluencies from time to time. For instance, some words are repeated and others are preceded by "um" or "uh." Disfluencies are not necessarily a problem; however, they can impede communication when a person produces too many of them.

In most cases, stuttering has an impact on at least some daily activities. The specific activities that a person finds challenging to perform vary across individuals. For some people, communication difficulties only happen during specific activities, for example, talking on the telephone or talking before large groups. For most others, however, communication difficulties occur across a number of activities at home, school, or work. Some people may limit their participation in certain activities. Such "participation restrictions" often occur because the person is concerned about how others might react to disfluent speech. Other people may try to hide their disfluent speech from others by rearranging the words in their sentence (circumlocution), pretending to forget what they wanted to say, or declining to speak. Other people may find that they are excluded from participating in certain activities because of stuttering. Clearly, the impact of stuttering on daily life can be affected by how the person and others react to the disorder.

What are signs and symptoms of stuttering?

Stuttered speech often includes repetitions of words or parts of words, as well as prolongations of speech sounds. These disfluencies occur more often in persons who stutter than they do in the general population. Some people who stutter appear very tense or "out of breath" when talking. Speech may become completely stopped or blocked. Blocked is when the mouth is positioned to say a sound, sometimes for several seconds, with little or no sound forthcoming. After some effort, the person may complete the word.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherDesmond Gahan
Release dateJun 8, 2017
ISBN9781386336723
Combat Stuttering (Tips & Tricks to Help Combat Stuttering)
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Desmond Gahan

Desmond Gahan BA., (Dip. Applied Psychology) is the author and publisher of many non fiction books. His special area is psychology and psychopathology. He lives in Dublin Ireland.

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    Table of Contents

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    Introduction

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    How Speech Is Coordinated

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    Early Signs Of

    Stuttering.....................................................................................................

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    How To React To People That Stutter

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    Employment

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    What Parents Can Do For Children Who Stutter

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    Stuttering During the School Age Years

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    Tips for Classroom Presentations about Stuttering

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    Treatment for People Who Stutter

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    Help for Young Children

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    What to Look For In A Speech‐Language Pathologist

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    Help For Teens Who

    Stutter..........................................................................................................

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    Help For Adults Who

    Stutter.........................................................................................................

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    Research On Stuttering

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    32

    Relapse

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    Support Groups

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    Conclusion

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    Resources

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    Appendix 1 The Science of Stammering 34.

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    Introduction

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    Stuttering is a speech impediment that is caused when the regular speech pattern is interrupted by repeated syllable or letter sounds. This happens when a person cannot say the word all at once. The person may also experience tremors and eye blinking while stuttering.

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    Stuttering can happen while they’re talking to a bunch of people or to one person. In the UK, stuttering is referred to as stammering or disfluent speech.

    There are about three million Americans that have been diagnosed with stuttering. It can affect anyone, but the group that it affects the most is children between the ages of 2 to 6

    years old. This is the time that they are learning to talk and make

    sentences. In this age group, boys outnumber the girls in stuttering. With adults, the stuttering rate hovers around 1 percent.

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    Some research has shown that stuttering may be genetically related. However, most stuttering has seemed to produce a developmental pattern. This is in reference to young children that are just starting to speak and form words and sentences.

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    With them, they stutter when they try to form the right word or sentence to speak out of their mouths. Usually with this type of scenario, the children will outgrow it.

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    There is another type of stuttering that

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