Stuttering Facts
This post was written by Mrs. Blog It AllJuly 28th, 2008
Stuttering affects 1% of the world’s population. That is about 2.8 million Americans stutter and about 75-80% of those stutterers are male.
A stutter can manifest in a variety of ways, including sustained repetitions of syllables or sounds, or silence while the stutterer tries to get out a word but refrains from articulating sound repetitions.
Stutterers do not stutter because they are nervous or because they want to. No one knows for certain the cause of stuttering. Stuttering may be caused by a number of factors working together that including neurochemical reactions, faulty brain function and learned responses.
A stutter block can be distressing, to the stutterer, who may feel alienated by other people, because the world at large is easily taken aback by a stuttering person.
A person can use psychological treatment to help them unlearn pattern of response that results in stuttering. But, stutterers do not stutter because they have psychological problems. Speech or stuttering therapy can result in fluent speech for a little while. But, many stutterers, after achieving fluent speech, soon reacquire their stutter.
If you have a congenital stutter, the object of a speech therapy program should not be to get you to speak fluently, but to teach you how to communicate effectively in spite of your stutter.
Stuttering cannot be cured. But it can be alleviated to some degree by a device called a SpeechEasy. This device was developed when it was discovered that some stutterers stop stuttering when in a large group of talking people or when singing in the choir. This device duplicates that environment.
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