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Disturbances
STUTTERING
Stuttering
is a disturbance in the normal flow of the speech of an individual.
Each person speaks occasionally with such type of symptoms, without
however facing the danger of being characterized as stutterer.
The difference between someone who stutters and someone who shows
normal instabilities in the flow of his speech lies in the number
of instabilities as well as in their form. In the normal disturbances
entire words are usually repeated, appear "quiet" (eg
Can … was Kostas) or "full" pauses (eg "I…mm…eee..
do not want to eat", interruptions or even rehandlings of
sentences (eg I was yesterday … where do you go?) while in stuttering
phonemes or syllables are primarily repeated. Almost all the children,
in the duration of their linguistic development, experience between
the ages of 2 and 5, a phase with many instabilities in the flow
of speech.
This does not have to worry us as long as the child does not present
marks of lassitude and great effort at the duration of speech.
Stuttering can appear for the first time at the beginning of school
life, while more seldom it makes his appearance at the adultness
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