Stammering is a speech disorder that involves difficulties in starting or repeating or prolonging a word, syllable, sentence, phrase or stopping during speech and making no sound for certain syllables.2
Speech disruption may be associated with struggling behaviors, such as rapid eye blinks or tumors of the lip or jaw, accompanied with tension, tightness or movement of the face or upper body.
Stress, fatigue and excitement can make stuttering worse. It aggravates when person is alert about speaking. It decreases when person is relaxed. Stammering can make it difficult to communicate with other people, which often affect a person’s quality of life. 3
Who stutters? Stuttering affects all age groups of people. Most often in children between the age of 2 and 5, when their language & speech is developing. Approximately 5 percent of all children will stutter for some period in their life, lasting from a few weeks to several years. Boys are twice as likely to stutter as girls. Later the number of boys stutterer is 3 to 4 times more then the number of girls. About 1% adults are stutter. 2,