The percentage of stuttering children with awareness of their own speech difficulties, according to chronological age, were as follows: 70% at age 3 years, 67% at age 4 years, 75% at age 5 years, 81% at age 6 y
It has a gradual onset between the age of 3 and 5 years and tends to be a problem that many children manifest and fortunately recover from before the onset of puberty. Studies indicate that between 50 and 80% of children who stutter recover from their stuttering. There are approximately ...
These estimated adult stuttering prevalence at 0.67% at age 14–17 years (Taghipour et al., 2013); 0.21% at age 16–20 years (Tsur et al., 2021); and 0.63% when aged over 21 years (Craig et al., 2002). Conclusion Systematic review indicates adult stuttering prevalence is between ...
Onset at age 3-8 years and resolves within 4 years in 75% of cases Neurogenic Stuttering Acquired Stuttering due to neurologic Trauma (e.g. Cerebrovascular Accident, Head Trauma) Psychogenic Stuttering (rare) VII. Differential Diagnosis Stutter-like Dysfluency Dysthymic phonation Blocks (unable to...
The aim of this study was to establish normative data on the speech disfluencies of normally fluent French-speaking children at age 4, an age at which stuttering has begun in 95% of children who stutter (Yairi & Ambrose, 2013). Fifty monolingual French-speaking children who do not stutter...
School-age children spend a considerable amount of time at school and there is little doubt that teachers are authority figures who can have a significant influence on their lives during these formative years. Values and theories teachers uphold can mold their teaching practices and student preference...
One of the causes of functional stuttering is excessively high demands placed on children’s speech, such as coercion to repeat incomprehensible and difficult words, to recite difficult verses before strangers, or to read matter not suited to the child’s age and development. Children with under-...
Managing these events correctly represents a substantial undertaking when viewed within the constraints of the time available and the immaturity of the nervous system at the typical age of the onset of stuttering. Clearly this creates a multiple-stress situation and, as indicated earlier, the most ...
METHOD Participants Ten adults who stutter (9 males and 1 female) with a mean age of 24.5 years (SD 5 6.8) participated in this study. The participants did not present with any other speech, language, or hearing disorders, and all had normal or corrected-to-normal vision. Each particip...
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