[ Contents | Search | Reply | Next | Previous | Up ]
From: George Shames
Date: 10 Oct 2006
Time: 15:50:28 -0500
Remote Name: 151.201.47.103
the many dimensions of stuttering can vary depending on the theory of etiology, the therapy, the familial influences, and listener reactions. Also, etiological factors may vary with the age of the stutterer, and the stutterer's environmental reactions to his attempts to talk.(i.e. teasing and taunting, being corrected by family and friends, being spoken for, avoidance behavior, etc. In young children going through speech and language development, disfluencies may be quite common. The history of the family with stuttering may result in certain attitudes and reactions to childhood disfluencies that could develop certain feelings and reactions in the child that could lead to actual stuttering. This may be one of the most important factors in initial etiology, along with genetic factors. attitude of helplessness. Each theoretical and therapeutic approach may focus on one factor even as there may be similarities among them for lesser important factors. One may facus on avoidance behavior, another on stutter-free speech, and another on onrtolledd stuttering.