Understanding Stuttering

What is stuttering?

Many authors do not quite agree with the way stuttering is defined.

Speaking of stuttering we should first talk about:

What does a person who stutters do?

What does a person who stutters feel?

What a person who stutters thinks?

What a person who stutters needs? and

What a person who stutters intentions are?

When we talk about stuttering we do not lose sight of the person stuttering. Stinging is not a process that can be analyzed in isolation from it. Without a person stuttering would not be there.

Stuttering is not a usual process of cyclical episodes of illiquid articulation but a continuous process, for example every stuttering statement is a symptom, and also a stuttering effect.

The incoherent speech on which all definitions of stuttering are based, starting with those colloquial and ending with academic definitions, is the beginning and the end of the problem that is stressed. 

Prof. Zbigniew Tarkowski, points out that it is not that stutterers speak illiterately throughout their speech but the periods of fluently articulated speeches are relatively longer than the periods of their illiquid articulation. This indicates that stuttering is much more than just talking. Stutterers who are aware of the lack of understanding of their situation, asked by their loved ones what their problem is most often answer "... you do not understand it ", the same remain with their problem.

Stuttering is a global communication disorder.

1) Stuttering is an acquired skill, not inherent.

2) Stuttering is not a condition but a characteristic.

3) The sting is most often accomplished in spontaneous speech.

4) Stuttering occurs in relation to the "evaluating" listener.

5) Assessing the listener becomes a "perpetrator" of stuttering.

6) The sting refers to a person as a whole, ex. to all spheres of its functioning.

Speaking of stuttering as a global communication disorder, we should realize that stuttering is also accomplished in the smooth speech of a stutterer. The fact that the listener appears to be fluid is primarily due to the fact that the stutterer has succeeded in successfully applying remedies, ex. those that allowed him to maintain fluency of speech. This definition emphasizes that stuttering is not a problem at the level of the individual language act, or at the level of the act of speech; it is a problem that only arises at the level of the communication act. The essence of the problem of the stutterer lies precisely in the fact that it is essentially capable of uttering every insulated voice, also in isolation being capable of uttering every word, it is noticeable that therapist - a speech therapist is capable of repeating every word. For this reason we argue that stuttering is only realized at the level of free and spontaneous expression, thereby disrupting the communication function of the tongue.

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