Stammering

Stammering

Stammering

The stammering results in difficulties of speaking in a fluid way (ex: repetition of syllables, prolongations of sounds, blockings). These accidents can be accompanied by involuntary movements of the face or the whole of the body or by respiratory spasms.

This handicap touches 1% of the population, with a clear male prevalence, and generally begins between 3 and 7 years.

The stammering is accentuated by the emotion, tiredness, the fear of bégayer or the efforts made to hide it. The stammering exists only in one context of spontaneous communication and is thus not started by the song, the theater, or the reading.

The origin of the stammering is plural

Supporting factors related to the subject could be physical (malformations of the phonatory bodies, the ear, or the brain) or psychological (an anxious, perfectionist temperament).

Supporting factors related to the environment of the child could be an important parental pressure with respect to the oral expression of the child as well as a conflict family atmosphere.

Starting factors are consisted events which are badly lived by the child (ex: birth of another child, a change of school or a removal). It can be also a more traumatic event like a serious accident or the death of a close relation.

Factors of chronicisation can be harmful attitudes like reproaches, councils or, on the contrary, indifference. These behaviors tend to make make with the child of large effort of word, which maintains its stammering paradoxically.

How is the stammering treated?

An early intervention is of a great effectiveness on a stammering which starts because in a case on four, that will not be arranged all alone.

The disorders of the word and the communication are dealt with by speech therapists and phoniatric specialists who help the child to acquire a better verbal communication. A psychological assumption of responsibility can prove to be complementary in order to help the child to take confidence in him and to slacken

To retain

The stammering touches a person on 100. It results in difficulties of spontaneous oral expression. It must be dealt with as soon as possible by professionals of the disorders of the word (speech therapists or phoniatric specialists).