Though stuttering is manifest in its motor characteristics, the cause of stuttering may not relate purely to impairments in the motor system as stuttering frequency is increased by linguistic factors, such as syntactic complexity and length of utterance, and decreased by changes in perception, such as masking or altering auditory feedback. Using functional and diffusion imaging, we examined bra...

Stuttering is a speech fluency disorder. Childhood high incidence period of stuttering, which has an important impact on children's daily communication with others. According to Howell, stuttering can be divided into two types: advancing and stalling. It very distinguish different types in children intervene treat them time, will conducive the recovery healthy growth children.

Stuttering is a developmental disorder which may adversely affect the individual on many functional and emotional levels. Common sequelae of speech disfluency include powerful emotions such as anxiety, shame, and anger, as well as speech-avoidant behaviors. For males, the influence of gender role socialization may present an additional burden. From a traditional perspective of masculinity, emot...

Michel Belyk, Shelly Jo Kraft and Steven Brown Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada Department of Neuropsychology & Psychopharmacology, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Universiteitssingel 40, Maastricht, Limburg 6200 MD, The Netherlands Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders, Wayne State University...

Stuttering is characterized by disrupted fluency of verbal expression, and occurs mostly in children. Persistent developmental stuttering (PDS) may occur in adults. Reports of the surgical management of PDS are limited. Here we present the case of a 28-year-old man who had had PDS since the age of 7 years, was diagnosed with depression and anxiety disorder at the age of 24 years, and had physic...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of the present study was to analyze the frequency and type of speech disfluencies in a relatively large group of individuals with Tourette's syndrome (TS) and to compare their results with similar speech data from a control group of unselected individuals. METHOD Self-report data, as well as conversation and reading samples, were obtained from 69 children diagnosed with ...

PURPOSE Verify the knowledge of teachers from public and private schools about stuttering and attest the effectiveness of the Teacher Training Program on Stuttering in the expansion of this knowledge. METHODS The study sample comprised 137 early-childhood teachers. Initially, the teachers responded to a questionnaire on stuttering. After that, 75 teachers attended a 4-hour Teacher Training Pr...