Category: Stuttering

Stuttering

5/15/2020

The following content was originally published by: The American Speech-Language Hearing Association (ASHA).
https://www.asha.org/stuttering/

This week is National Stuttering Awareness Week! Did you know that stuttering usually starts between 2 and 6 years of age? Many children go through normal periods of disfluency lasting less than 6 months. Stuttering that lasts longer may need treatment.

Talking to people can be hard if you stutter. You may get stuck on certain words or sounds. You may feel tense or uncomfortable. You might change words to avoid stuttering. Speech-language pathologists, or SLPs, can help.

Stuttering (aka Dysfluent Speech)

2/19/2018

The term “stutter” is terribly outdated and oftentimes negatively viewed, rather I like the term “dysfluent speech.” It is important to remember that we all have moments of dysfluent speech, that doesn’t necessarily mean we all need speech-language therapy to address it. The line that we draw to determine if therapy is recommended is the impact the dysfluent moment have on one’s life, the severity/ frequency/duration of dysfluent moments, and the accompanying tension with the dysfluent moments.

Some of the most common types of dysfluent speech include:

Single word repetition (e.g. “I I I I I want a hamburger.”)
Phrase repetition (e.g.,” I want a ham-ham-hamburger.”)
Blocking (e.g., “I want a ham (pause) burger.”)
Prolongation (e.g., “I want a hammmmmmmburger.”)
Avoidance (avoiding saying word/s because the speaker anticipates a dysfluent moment)
Fillers (inserting words/sounds to offer the speaker more time to prepare for what they are saying; "like, "uh", "and".)

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