► Stuttering Children And Treatments Psk.Burçin KOYUNCU

Stuttering is developmental speech disorder, which usually appears in children between the ages of 3 and 8 years. It does not remit before puberty, but it can persist into adult life. Stuttering is defined by involuntary syllable repetitions, syllable prolongations, or interruptions in the smooth flow of speech. (Gordon, 2002) It is a form of dysfluency, an interruption in the flow of speech. There may sometimes be difficulty in differentiating infants who definitely stutter from those who show the dysfluency as a normal stage of speech development in infancy. However, the two are distinct. The frequency of dysfluency, the proportion and duration of dysfluency types, and the associated behav... »»»