Stammering or Stuttering: Everything You Need To Know

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Chapters

0:00 Introduction
0:54 Causes of Stammering or Stuttering
1:36 Signs and symptoms
2:53 Diagnosis for Stammering or Stuttering
3:05 Treatment

• Stuttering, or stammering, is a speech disorder that is also known as diffluent speech. 
• Stuttering specifically includes the following:
• An uneven rate of speech
• Halted or interrupted speech production, and 
• Repeated words, syllables, and sounds
• Stuttering is a highly common phenomenon, affecting between 5 to 10% of all children. 
• It mostly occurs in children between 2 and 6 years of age. 
• While most children will not carry a stutter beyond childhood, 25% of children who don’t lose their stutter will be affected by it as adults. 
• Intervening early can help a child stop stammering and nullify all chances of them carrying it into adulthood. 
• Let’s take a deeper look into stuttering:
Causes
• The most common causes of stuttering or stammering include:
• Family dynamics
• Neurophysiology 
• Issues in development during childhood
• A family history of stuttering
• Furthermore, injuries and trauma can also result in stuttering. 
• Sustaining an injury to the brain from a stroke can cause stuttering. 
• Similarly, severe emotional trauma can also cause stuttering. 
• Stuttering is believed to run in families as the part of the brain that governs speech and language may be abnormally developed across generations. 
• Children of parents who have stuttered usually stutter as well. 
Signs and Symptoms
• Three different types of stuttering can affect a person. 
• Developmental stuttering occurs while a child is developing their speech. Their mouth may take time to build up their language abilities. 
• The developmental type goes away without treatment. 
• Neurogenic stuttering occurs when there are abnormalities between the brain’s signals and the nerves or muscles of the body. 
• Psychogenic stuttering originates from the brain, specifically the part that regulates speech and learning. 
• The symptoms across all these types are the same, and they include:
• Frustration in trying to communicate
• Occasional refusal to speak 
• Noticeable physical changes in the face, such as facial tics, extensive eye blinking, lip tremors, and increased tension in the upper face area
• Pausing or hesitation when starting to speak
• Interjections or extra sounds while speaking
• A tense voice
• Rearranging words while speaking
• Stretching out words with longer sounds
• Repetition whilst speaking
• Often, children are not aware that they are stuttering and may get used to how they speak. 
Diagnosis
• There is no invasive test to diagnose stuttering. 
• The diagnosis can be made by a speech-language pathologist based on the symptoms exhibited by a person. 
Treatment
• Most stuttering does not require treatment as children grow past the developmental stage and stop stuttering with time. 
• Speech therapy is the most common treatment for other kinds of stuttering. 
• Speech therapy can help with intonation and can also reduce interruptions while speaking. 
• It gives a person the push they need to stop stuttering. It helps increase self-esteem and helps with pronunciation and enunciation. 
• Beyond speech therapy, electronic devices such as voice recorders and hearing aids can also help. 
• The former helps repeat what has been said and learn where the mistakes lie while hearing aids can help reduce background noise and increase focus. 
• Beyond this, no specific medication is known to help with stuttering.

[gloomybear.]

i never actually knew it was a speech disorder

[haloedge]

My brother still has it, even with early intervention and years of speech therapy. He has autism so I think that's why it was hard for him to fully conquer. He also has no volume control, which seems like I'm just calling him loud, but it seems like he has no awareness how loud he is and when it's pointed out he can only lower his voice for a few moments and then it's brought back up.

[sushvetadas]

I thought i am the only who feels like hell sometimes...its been 10-12 years i m shuttering...and still hasn't gone...well now its okay cause i had some development on my own but the fact is again the same thing starts and today I can't even speak 2 words properly i m 16 years old now ...and since childhood my mother scolded me too much even slapped me because i shuttered and it worsened it
Some things are there to reduce your stammering --
1) Try to fresh up your mind and be happy then speak
2)You can talk straight or kinda softly or cutely it helps..but I don't prefer it that much because i don't like it at all
3)Your stammering depends on which level you are in cause many people are there who can't even speak a single world properly and vice versa .So if its in between the normal and middle stage then you should try speaking loudly and speak every single word properly.
Sometimes scolding your own self can also help. At the last point 4)Be confident when you speak just forget that you have a speech problem you can do it ofcourse you can have this sort of mindset
Remember the first point which I told that to be happy and confident and then talk nowadays even if you want to talk like that people start imitating you and it worsens our mindset and makes us more nervous...so this sort of people are there...
Some people are also there who will accept you whatever you are like and we can freely talk to them without any barriers in between and again some people are also there who will give you confidence comfort and again in the end they....(I hope you understand) The toxic ones mainly.

So buddy no matter what you are suffering from
Be happy what you have
Even if you are shuttering think it as a blessing because only few people have it and it makes us more special and i even kinda Heard that shuttering sounds cute many people have told me be happy stay safe and blessed and be confident everything lies in your hands and brain and don't be nervous.
Everything's gonna be fine one day the more we work for it.

[johnattincan]

I stutter all the time, the blocks are the most annoying part but other than that it's kinda funny lol

[Zeeiian]

very educational video keep on sharing this kind of clips.More power!

[LizaBMarie]

I’m here because, I’m 35 and within the last two weeks, I’ve become aware that I have a slight stutter. It’s not invasive to my life, but it is a bit annoying. It’s also concerning because, I truly don’t know if I’ve had this my whole life and have JUST now noticed, or if this is a new development.
Hearing that it’s unusual to develop a stutter as an adult, unless it’s due to an injury or trauma, is also concerning because I do have health problems & trauma.
Edit to ask : has anyone else here developed a stutter as an adult and if so, do you know the reason for it developing?
I hate doctors, so I’d rather figure this out myself if possible.

[DB-rlih]

I stammers a alot. Sad to see not much is achieved to cure it yet in medical science.

[aaronodonnel]

I am 45 and have had trouble with t’s and st’s my whole life . Remarkably I discovered it started around age 6 which coincided with my adult teeth coming in.
My 2 front teeth are slightly lower than they would be in a perfect mouth.
Had a filing and bridge done today.
Studder gone after 39 years

[ashleytallchief]

My mom was saying my son was stuttering on purpose’… I was like let me send her some videos. My son just turned 7 and has autism

[bagu_]

Well I didn't had stutter when I was young . Its increasing with time . I m now 15 I noticed that with time my disorder is increasing. Wtf😔

[Junior_]

1:10 how about people of stuttering to just stop having kids?
cause this thing is hell i can relate...

[studywithmedico]

Every Stammerer can control their stammering