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What Is Stuttering?
According to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, "Stuttering is a speech disorder in which the normal flow of speech is disrupted by frequent repetitions or prolongations of speech sounds, syllables or words or by an individual's inability to start a word. The speech disruptions may be accompanied by rapid eye blinks, tremors of the lips and/or jaw or other struggle behaviors of the face or upper body that a person who stutters may use in an attempt to speak. Certain situations, such as speaking before a group of people or talking on the telephone, tend to make stuttering more severe, whereas other situations, such as singing or speaking alone, often improve fluency.
Stuttering may also be referred to as stammering, especially in England, and by a broader term, disfluent speech. Stuttering is different from two additional speech fluency disorders, cluttering, characterized by a rapid, irregular speech and spasmodic dysphonia, a voice disorder."
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News & Events
MTV True Life Story - February 27, 2007 Do you have a noticeable stutter that affects your day-to-day life? Do you face constant ridicule and embarrassment at school because of your speech impediment? Were you expecting to outgrow your stutter but haven’t yet? Is it keeping you from having a normal social life? Do you take classes or see a specialist to help minimize your stutter? Are you considering a surgical procedure to overcome it completely? If you appear to be between the ages of 16 and 28 and want to share your story with MTV, email stutter@mtvstaff.com with all the details of your problem. Please be sure to include your name, location, phone number and a photo if possible.
8th World Congress for People Who Stutter - May 6, 2007 The International Stuttering Association and the Croatian Association of People who Stutter invite you and your family to join other people who stutter at the 8th World Congress for People who stutter.
A New Anti-Stuttering Device: Treatment of stuttering using bone conduction stimulation with delayed temporal feedback. MEDLINE MedPub Research Study.
The National Stuttering Association Annual Conference to be held in Atlanta, Georgia June 28 - July 1, 2007, keynote speaker announced.
Teenager Daniel Altman speaks out about stuttering - News from The Stuttering Foundation of America.
The National Association of Young People Who Stutter announces their 2007 Conference in St. Louis, MO at The Crowne Plaza!
The British Stammering Association announces the 6th ELSA Youth Meeting in July 2007 in Nijmegen (Groesbeek) in The Netherlands.
The American Institute for Stuttering announces their 2007 treatment schedules June through December!
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