Abstract
Stuttering is a disorder characterized by intermittent difficulty in producing a smooth flow of speech. Stutterers may repeat or prolong sounds or may sometimes be unable to utter any sound without a great deal of effort. The disorder usually begins a year or two after the child has first learned to speak. The earliest symptoms are usually repetitions of parts of words. Signs of the problem may gradually progress, in a matter of months or during a period of several years, from these minor repetitions to prolongations of sounds, longer hesitations, and complete blockings of speech. Accessory signs and symptoms such as facial squeezing, tremors of the speech musculature, and eye blinks, as well as fear and avoidance of particular words and situations, often occur in more severe cases. At times stuttering may be
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