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INTERNATIONAL
STUTTERING AWARENESS DAY |
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Date-wise Events |
October 22 |
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Description |
- The day is intended to raise public awareness of the
millions of people – one percent of the world's population –
who have the speech disorder of stuttering, also known as
stammering.
- ISAD includes an online conference, running annually
from October 1 to 22 each year, targeted at people with an
interest in stuttering as well as speech-language
pathologists and their clients.
- Stuttering is a speech disorder in which the flow of
speech is disrupted by involuntary repetitions and
prolongations of sounds, syllables, words or phrases as well
as involuntary silent pauses or blocks in which the person
who stutters is unable to produce sounds.
- The term stuttering also encompasses the abnormal
hesitation or pausing before speech, referred to by people
who stutter as blocks, and the prolongation of certain
sounds, usually vowels or semivowels.
- Stuttering is generally not a problem with the physical
production of speech sounds or putting thoughts into words.
- The disorder is also variable, which means that in
certain situations the stuttering might be more severe or
less.
- Although the exact etiology, or cause, of stuttering is
unknown, both genetics and neurophysiology are thought to
contribute.
- There are many treatments and speech therapy techniques
available that may help increase fluency in some people who
stutter to the point where an untrained ear cannot identify
a problem.
- But there is essentially no cure for the disorder at
present.
- The severity of the person's stuttering would correspond
to the amount of speech therapy needed to increase fluency.
- For severe stuttering, long-term therapy and hard work
will be required to increase fluency.
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