Academic literature on the topic 'Stuttering. Speech therapy'

The article identifies the process of speech therapy for stuttering children's speech: the causes of stuttering, collection of anamnesis of children with stuttering speech defects, comprehensive examination of various aspects of speech, identification of the mechanism of developmental disorders and levels of stuttering using speech therapy-corrective technologies. Through this examination, the problems of speech defects in children in a timely manner were considered, and the purpose of the article was to reveal the concepts of stuttering, their comprehensive examination and methods of overcoming stuttering.

The article identifies the process of speech therapy for stuttering children's speech: the causes of stuttering, collection of anamnesis of children with stuttering speech defects, comprehensive examination of various aspects of speech, identification of the mechanism of developmental disorders and levels of stuttering using speech therapy-corrective technologies. Through this examination, the problems of speech defects in children in a timely manner were considered, and the purpose of the article was to reveal the concepts of stuttering, their comprehensive examination and methods of overcoming stuttering.

Stuttering is a speech disorder that can be caused by many aspects such trauma, incident, and illness because there is no one born with this kind of speech disorder. The researcher in this study is focused on how Fluency Shaping Therapy and Stuttering Modification Therapy were used by Lionel, can reduce Bertie’s stuttering utterance. In addition, this study is using descriptive qualitative method to analyze and describe the data. Moreover, the data in this study is in the form of dialogues between Bertie and Lionel that were collected from The King’s Speech movie using analysis document. Then, the collected data is analyzed by data condensation, data analysis, and conclusion. The result shows that these two stuttering treatments (stuttering modification and fluency shaping which part of motor learning study) can be effective therapies because each of them has procedures that can support each other. In conclusion, stuttering is not an illness that human born along with but can be caused by many things and this speech disorder cannot be cured but can be reduced and modified using two methods, stuttering modification and fluency shaping therapy. Both of them can be combined together with Aristotle’s Rhetoric as a method to teach public speaking especially those who are having problems with stuttering.

The article investigates the theoretical foundations and practical implementation of the complex approach to psycho-corrective work on overcoming stuttering. It is a therapeutic and pedagogical influence on different sides of the psychophysical state of a child suffering from stuttering by means of diverse methods, means and efforts initiated by different specialists (doctors, speech therapists, psychologists, educators). The purpose of the psycho-corrective work is to eliminate or weaken speech twitching and related disorders of voice, breathing, motor skills and speech; improvement and strengthening of the nervous system and the organism as a whole; depriving the child of a misconception of his / her speech defects as well as from psychological layering; re-education of his / her personality and behaviour, social rehabilitation and adaption of a child suffering from stuttering. Stuttering is not only a disorder of the speech function, but, first of all, a disorder of the nervous system, the weakening of a physical health, general motor skills; psychological features should also be noted. The experimental methodology of the complex psycho-corrective work with preschool children suffering from stuttering has been presented, it is aimed at forming the abilities of a stable smooth speech as a capability of pronouncing each syntagm within one speech exhalation. The methodology was introduced into the speech therapy work of specialized preschool institutions. Some specialized computer programs aimed at correcting the stuttering (games for tigers); traditional methods of preventing stuttering (creation of a protective speech mode, complexes of exercises aimed at the formation of phonation breathing, development of speech intonation characteristics, work on smoothing speech in its various forms, etc.); author’s methods of stutter correction (breathing exercises by A. M. Strelnikova, S. O. Mironova’s methodology, G. O. Volkova’s playing-based approach) were used in the designated work. The results of the study indicate the effectiveness of the proposed complex psycho-correctional methodology for working with preschoolers in order to overcome stuttering. It was experimentally proved that it is necessary to complexly influence not only on speech, personality, motor skills, nervous system of a stuttering child but also on his / her body as a whole in order to eliminate his / her stuttering. Keywords: stuttering, complex psycho-correctional work, methodology for overcoming stuttering, speech therapy exercises, speech, speech disorders.

Objective To determine the effectiveness of a cognitive behaviour language therapy (CBLT) programme to reduce speech anxiety among stuttering school adolescents. Methods This was a group randomized clinical trial that enrolled stuttering school adolescents who had severe speech anxiety. The participants were randomized to either the treatment group or the control group. The Speech Anxiety Thoughts Inventory (SATI) score was recorded before and after a 12-week CBLT programme was delivered in 24 group sessions to the treatment group. The control group did not receive any therapy. Results A total of 92 stuttering school adolescents who met the inclusion criteria were randomized to the treatment group ( n = 46; 22 males, 24 females; mean ± SD age, 16.36 ± 2.20 years) or the control group ( n = 46; 28 males, 18 females; mean ± SD age, 15.45 ± 2.10 years). Results showed that the CBLT intervention significantly reduced speech anxiety among stuttering school adolescents compared with the control group (post-test SATI assessment, mean ± SD 26.52 ± 1.67 versus 89.92 ± 3.17, respectively). Conclusion These findings suggest that speech educators and therapists in educational institutions and hospitals should follow the principles of CBLT when treating speech anxiety.

Despite the fact that the phenomenon of "stuttering" is quite a mature and comprehensively studied issue in speech therapy, still many ambiguous sides of this problem remain unresolved. Most modern researchers would agree that multiple factors, including those associated with linguistic, motor, sensory, and emotional processes, are likely involved in its development and preservation.
 According to the conceptual analysis of the problem of speech therapy, the need for a comprehensive application of speech therapy methods in the process of overcoming stuttering, as well as the need to introduce them in social micro-macro environments, is indisputable. The "maps" outlining the guidelines and the action plan, which would support the effective implementation of the latter.
 A qualitative framework was used in order to obtain the review and experience that specialists have had during their practices while working with stuttering person and his/her family.