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Stuttering

Stuttering, also known as stammering, is a speech disorder characterized externally by involuntary repetitions and prolongations of sounds, syllables, words, or phrases as well as involuntary silent pauses called blocks in which the person who stutters is unable to produce sounds. Almost 80 million people worldwide stutter, about 1% of the world's…

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Causes
Neurological and genetics (primarily)
Differential diagnosis
Cluttering
Duration
Long term
Frequency
About 1%
Other names
Stammering, alalia syllabaris, alalia literalis, anarthria literalis, dysphemia
Prognosis
75–80% developmental resolves by late childhood; 15–20% of cases last into adulthood

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Stuttering

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Triples208
Avg. degree1.98
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Stuttering

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related to history · 22
Stuttering → Auditory, Because, Believing, Bible, Brain, Claudius, Demosthenes, Europe, Exodus, Galen's, Hard, Hearing, Hieronymus Mercurialis, Humoral, In, Middle Ages, Moses, Partly, People, Roman
related to Diagnosis · 21
Stuttering → As, Diagnosis, Disfluency Type Index, DTI, During, Fourth Edition, In, NAT, One, Riley's Stuttering Severity Instrument, SLP, Some, SPI, SPM, SS, SSI-4, The, The SLP, They, TOCS
related to Sources · 17
Stuttering → An Integrated Approach, Cluttering, Frameworks, Guitar, Hove, ISBN, Its Nature, Kalinowski JS, Lippincott Williams, New York City, Plural Publishing, Psychology Press, Saltuklaroglu, San Diego, Treatment, Ward, Wilkins
related to Further reading · 16
Stuttering → American Popular Song, August, Croom Helm, CS1, DOI, Goldmark, In Lerner, ISBN, Music, Nineteenth Century Britain, Rockey, Sounding, Speech Disorder, Straus, The History, Theorizing Disability
related to Cross cultural · 13
Stuttering → African, Cross-cultural, Different, European, It, Later, Many, North America, Some, The, US-based, Wendell Johnson, West Africa
related to Disability rights movement · 12
Stuttering → ADA, Although, Americans, British, Defence, Defence Stammering Network, Disabilities Act, In, In July, MOD, Some, UK Ministry
has cause · 11
Stuttering → Children, Dennis Drayna, GNPTAB, GNPTG, In, It, NAGPA, Researchers, The, There, Various
related to Associations · 10
Stuttering → All India Institute, AmericaThe Indian Stammering Association, HearingAmerican Institute, Speech, StammeringNational Stuttering Association, Stuttering AssociationMichael Palin Centre, Stuttering AssociationsInternational Stuttering AssociationIsrael, Stuttering AssociationStuttering Foundation, StutteringBritish Stammering AssociationEuropean League, United StatesPhilippine Stuttering AssociationTaiwan
related to Feelings and attitudes · 8
Stuttering → Feelings, In, Joseph Sheehan, People, Such, The, This, With
has treatment · 7
Stuttering → ClinicalTrials, In, NYU Langone Health, Phase, The, Therapy, While

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
StutteringCausesNeurological and genetics (primarily)1.00infobox
StutteringDifferential diagnosisCluttering1.00infobox
StutteringDurationLong term1.00infobox
StutteringFrequencyAbout 1%1.00infobox
StutteringOther namesStammering, alalia syllabaris, alalia literalis, anarthria literalis, dysphemia1.00infobox
StutteringPrognosis75–80% developmental resolves by late childhood; 15–20% of cases last into adulthood1.00infobox
StutteringSpecialtySpeech–language pathology1.00infobox
StutteringSymptomsInvoluntary sound repetition and disruption or blocking of speech1.00infobox
StutteringTreatmentSpeech therapy, community support1.00infobox
StutteringUsual onsetSudden, 2–5 years old1.00infobox
Stutteringis adistinct0.90text
Stutteringis amultifaceted0.90text

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