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Communication and Swallowing Disorders
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Fluency refers to the continuity of speech production. The most common disfluency is stuttering. Stuttering is characterized by repetitions (of sounds or of words), prolongations, and blocks (in which the speech sound cannot be produced). Most children experience a period of normal dysfluency around 3 or 4 years of age as their speech and language production struggles to keep up with their leaps in cognitive development. Normal dysfluencies differ in quality and quantity from those diagnosed as disordered.

Fluency treatments focus on compensating for the dysfluencies (such as avoiding certain "problem" words) and training in speech production techniques to reduce dysfluent behaviors (such as "easy speech"). Some people benefit from equipment that alters auditory feedback (an auditory delay device). Behavioral training may also be necessary to reduce secondary behaviors such as shrugging, blinking, or jerking that the person developed to help break out of dysfluent episodes.

Listeners can help by being patient and not finishing sentences for the person who stutters. Understand that stuttering is not a nervous problem, and it's not something a person can just "snap out of."

For more detailed information on stuttering and related topics such as cluttering, please visit the site of the Stuttering Foundation of America at http://www.stutteringhelp.org/.
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