Childhood Onset Fluency Disorder
A speech disorder involving frequent problems with the normal fluency and flow of speech.
Cluster Number:
Wiki Number: W040
Diagnosis: Childhood Onset Developmental Dysfluency
US Patients: 10% Preschoolers
World Patients:
Sex Ratio:
Age Onset: Ages 4-6
Brain Area:
Symptoms: Dysfluencies: stuttering, repetition, mistiming, or poor inflection. Time between toddler and pre-school.
Progression: Children may repeat syllables or words as the try to frame sentences correctly. Fluent speech may be delayed.
Causes:
Medications: None listed – this is normal development, but may be delayed.
Therapies: 10% benefit from a speech therapist/speech language pathologist. They learn how to pronounce speech sounds correctly.
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- Family History of Stuttering among Kurdish Children Who Stutter Near the Age of Onsetby Hiwa Mohammadi on October 22, 2024
CONCLUSION: The rate of positive family history of stuttering among Kurdish CWS is similar to previously reported data in the same age group. There was no significant association of family history of stuttering with sex and age on the onset of the disorder.
- Stuttering as a spectrum disorder: A hypothesisby Shahriar SheikhBahaei on November 29, 2023
Childhood-onset fluency disorder, commonly referred to as stuttering, affects over 70 million adults worldwide. While stuttering predominantly initiates during childhood and is more prevalent in males, it presents consistent symptoms during conversational speech. Despite these common clinical manifestations, evidence suggests that stuttering, may arise from different etiologies, emphasizing the need for personalized therapy approaches. Current research models often regard the stuttering...
- Social anxiety disorder in adolescents who stutter: A risk for school refusalby Yoshikazu Kikuchi on September 10, 2023
CONCLUSIONS: When examining adolescents who stutter, checking for comorbid SAD may lead to better support. Moreover, noticing their repetitive negative thinking, nervousness, and trembling during speech may help to resolve SAD.
- Acoustic analysis in stuttering: a machine-learning studyby Francesco Asci on July 17, 2023
CONCLUSION: Acoustic analysis based on artificial intelligence (SVM) represents a reliable tool for the objective and automatic recognition of stuttering and its relationship with physiologic ageing. The accuracy of the automatic classification is high and independent of the speech task. Machine-learning analysis would help clinicians in the objective diagnosis and clinical management of stuttering. The digital collection of audio samples here achieved through smartphones would promote the...