STUTTERING: The beginning

Stuttering is a speech problem which occurs when the speaker is not able to maintain a smooth forward flow of speech, particularly when excited or under psychological stress. Because of defective control of muscles of the speech organs there is an obstruction in pronunciation of certain sounds or one utters then with repetition. There is a difficulty in the necessary movement of the tongue and lips and there is also a sound in the voice organs which leads to stammering. This difficulty is usually to words beginning with sounds produced by letters like p, b, t, d, g, k. and usually on clusters. But it may vary from person to person.


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Stuttering can make it difficult to communicate with other people, which often affect a person’s quality of life. Sometimes it makes life a hell. In general, speaking before a group or talking on the telephone may take a person’s stuttering more severe, while singing, reading, or speaking in unison may temporarily reduce stuttering. It has been observed that most of the stutters often sing fluently.
A person who stammers often has difficulty in smoothly coordinating breathing exhalations during speech caused by lack of synchrony between his thoughts and his speaking machines. Most people who stammers attempt to avoid or substitute particular words and situations. The problems have both physical and psychological overtones. Stuttering is not a disease but an undesirable speech habit with causes havoc with the sufferer’s self-confidence. Stammering and stuttering mean exactly the same condition. It is called stammering in England while stuttering in America.

There are over 68 million people who stutter in this world, with around 10 million in the US alone. About 1 in 20 children up to the age 5 develop some level of stuttering. However, the bright side is that it goes away for most children after a few weeks, months or years. For about 1%, it continues into their adulthood and might even become worse. Stuttering is a condition that is more common among boys rather than the girls. It affects four times as any boys as girls.

We make speech sounds through a series of precisely coordinated muscle movements involving breathing, phonation (voice production), and articulation (movements of the throat, palate, tongue and lips) muscle movements are controlled by the brain and monitored through our senses of hearing and touch. Stuttering has more to do with the personality and with the mind of the individuals. Stuttering is said to affect approximately 1% of the global population and occurs uniformly regardless of race, culture, education or socio-economic status.


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These are the famous peoples used to stutter

  • ·         Moses from bible
  • ·         Demosthenes, a Greek orator
  • ·         Aesop, the Greek story-teller’
  • ·         Claudius, the Roman king
  • ·         Aristotle, the Greek philosopher
  • ·         King George 6 of England
  • ·         Isaac Newton, the physicist
  • ·         Somerset, the writer
  • ·         Samuel L Jackson, the actor
  • ·         Pritam, the music director
  • ·         Lewis Carroll, the writer
  • ·         Marilyn Monroe, the singer and actresses
  • ·         Winston Churchill, the Nobel laureate and political leader
  • ·         Bruce Willis, the Hollywood actor
  • ·         James Earl Jones, the actor and theatre personality
  • ·         Nicole Kindman, the Hollywood actress
  • ·         Tiger Woods, the golfer
  • ·         Hrithik roshan, the Bollywood actor
  • ·         Mr. Bean, a renowned actor
  • ·         Charles Darwin, Scientist and philosopher
  • ·         and the list goes on


I believe you also have the full right and all the necessary skills and the potentials to transform yourself into a fluent confident and an excellent speaker. And i am sure you will achieve all the success you deserve.
We will discuss about causes and cures of stuttering in the next part of my blog. So stay connected.  May god bless you all.
Try to read the 2nd part of my blog on this topic.

Note: This information is the result of my research on this topic for several years. Source of this information is interaction with speech therapists and specialists as well as internet.

References:
http://www.nidchd.nih.gov
http://www.mayoclinic.org
http://www.stammeringcurecentre.com
http://www.stammering.org/



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