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... > Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms > Neurobehavioral Manifestations > Communication Disorders > Language Disorders > Speech Disorders > Stuttering
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Preferred term

Stuttering  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Acquired Stuttering
  • Adult Stuttering
  • Childhood Stuttering
  • Developmental Stuttering
  • Stammering
  • Stuttering, Acquired
  • Stuttering, Adult
  • Stuttering, Childhood
  • Stuttering, Developmental
  • Stuttering, Familial Persistent 1

Scope note

  • A disturbance in the normal fluency and time patterning of speech that is inappropriate for the individual's age. This disturbance is characterized by frequent repetitions or prolongations of sounds or syllables. Various other types of speech dysfluencies may also be involved including interjections, broken words, audible or silent blocking, circumlocutions, words produced with an excess of physical tension, and monosyllabic whole word repetitions. Stuttering may occur as a developmental condition in childhood or as an acquired disorder which may be associated with BRAIN INFARCTIONS and other BRAIN DISEASES. (From DSM-IV, 1994)

In other languages

  • änkytys

    Finnish

  • balbuties
  • balbutismus
  • dysphemia
  • stamning
  • änkyttäminen
  • Stamning

    Swedish

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D013342

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