Speech Therapy for Stuttering

Welcome to Speech Therapy for Stuttering.

Stuttering is a disorder affecting the fluency of speech. The World Health Organization defines stuttering as "a disorder in the rhythm of speech.
Many teens and adults who stutter have been to speech therapy for their stuttering at least once in their lives.
Stuttering may be generally defined as the repetition--rapid in some cases, slow in others--of a word or a syllable, before the following word or syllable can be uttered.
Stuttering may take several forms, any one of which will fall into one of four phases:

(1)--Simple Phase (2)--Advanced Phase (3)--Mental Phase (4)--Compound Phase

Simple stuttering can be said to be a purely physical form of the difficulty. The Advanced Phase marks the stage of further progress where the trouble passes from the purely physical state into a condition that may be known as Mental-Physical. The distinctly Mental Phase is marked by symptoms indicating a mental cause for the trouble, the disorder usually having passed into this form from the simple or advanced stages of the malady. Stuttering may be combined with stammering in which case the condition represents the Compound Phase of the trouble.