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Developmental stuttering is an impairment in speech fluency in which the forward flow of speech is disrupted frequently or for an excessively long period of time by one or more of the following types of disfluency: repeated sounds or syllables, repeated words (particularly monosyllabic words), and fixed articulatory postures. Fixed articulatory postures result in either (a) audibly prolonged speech sounds or (b) breaks in speech during which the speaker assumes an articulatory position with little or no sound forthcoming (inaudible prolongations). These symptoms usually emerge between the ages of 2 and 5 years following a period of seemingly normal fluency development, and they may persist throughout the life span.
Historical Background
Definitions of stuttering have evolved substantially during the past century. Early definitions of stuttering often included hypothetical constructs – many of which were psychological in nature. From the 1940s through the...
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Logan, K.J. (2011). Stuttering, Developmental. In: Kreutzer, J.S., DeLuca, J., Caplan, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-79948-3_887
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