Info about Stuttering
What is stuttering
Stuttering is a speaking disorder when syllables or words aren’t said well, so the person has problems speaking. The person is struggling to say the words right, and he might have other behaviors like blinking very quickly. But the biggest problem for the persons with stutter disorder is that they can’t communicate as they would like, so it is affecting their life. Many persons stutter all the time, but some other only stutter when they are nervous, because for example they have to speak in front of a audience. The interesting thing that doctor’s noticed is that if a person with this disorder is singing or reading in the same time with other persons, it doesn’t have any more this problem.
Stuttering can be caused by emotional trauma, but the two most common causes are developmental stuttering and neurogenic stuttering. Developmental stuttering is the most common, because it appears on small kids in the period they learn how to speak. But it is also believed that the stuttering disorder has bigger chances to develop in the same family, because it was discovered that there are 3 genes in the human ADN that cause this disorder. If a personal has neurogenic stuttering, the disorder was caused by a brain injury, like a head trauma, so the brain can’t coordinate very well. Almost three millions people from the USA stutters, and it is believed the boys have twice chances to stutter than girls.
When a person is stuttering, he might have the behavior of repeating a sound from a word or even to repeat the same word for many times, until he tells it right. This person’s speaking is very tense, like they think they will get without breath. They also might get blocked in the middle of a proposition and use very often sounds like “ummm” because they expect having difficulties telling their future words, so they try to delay the moment. If you are a parent that thinks his kid may have this disorder, you need to get him to a speech-language pathologist, so he can test him. He will analyze the way your child is stuttering, ask about medical history. The child can have other speech disorders too, but the speech-language pathologist is the only one that can tell you if this will be a permanent condition or the child has the ability to learn how to speak better.