Existence of Stuttering in SIgn Language and Other Forms of Expressive Communication

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Re: Stuttered signs and Social Phobia (Revised Response)

From: IIia Rasskazov
Date: 14 Oct 2006
Time: 10:55:00 -0500
Remote Name: 85.140.163.185

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Hi, Greg, thank you very much for your reply. The comorbidity doesn't mean causality-sequence relationship between the diseases, as it only states the fact of their co-existence... Your reasonings about the causal-sequence relations of stuttering and social anxiety is a separate theme, which is also very interesting! Replying to your question, we are pleased to inform you that in 2005 in Moscow clinical center we have conducted a survey of 156 people with stuttering, aged 14 - 46, with the Lebovich test (recommended by World Psychiatric Association for determining the severity of social phobia). In 67 people (42.9%) the social phobia was present in a severe form,in 39 (25%) people - moderate social phobia; 36 people (23,1%) were suffering from the mild social phobia, and 14 people (9%) showed the results of absence of social phobia... Ok, lets consider the following case: there are people with a fear of public speaking, that may have skin, turning red;hyperhydrosis (palm sweatening);breath disturbances, high rate of heart beat, high level of tremor (shaking) in hands and legs; larynx muscles spasm, stuttering during speaking in public. Stuttering appears only while public speaking, when they speak in front of the big audience, whereas there is no stuttering in other situations (speaking in the small groups, consisting 3-4 persons). How do the stuttered signs in these people differ from the stuttered signs of people that stutter constantly, independently from the situation of communication?


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