Stuttering runs in families by both nature and nurture.
Age of onset and length of persistence
Onset is insidious, with the child often unaware of the problem.
If stuttering starts after...
Therapy must work on improving the child’s fluency and increasing acceptance and tolerance of this problem by the patient and his or her family.
In a multicultural learning at...
Craig A, Hancock K, Tran Y, et al. Epidemiology of stuttering in the community across the entire life span. J Speech Lang Hear Res. 2002;45(6):1097–1105. [View Abstract on Ovi...
Q: Are some children more prone to stuttering?
A: Yes. “Sensitive” children (many different definitions in many different studies) are more likely to stutter as are the children of highly critical ...
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