STUTTERING: INITIATING FACTORS, EVOLUTION, HEALING PERSPECTIVES

Despite high amount of incidents, no scientific paper existed up to now in Georgia dealing with the stuttering. In present essay the views over are collated. It is confirmed that the phenomenon reflects the speech rate and/or the rhythm distortions created by convulsive type involuntary contractions of voice-producing muscles. The disorder is either congenital or acquired. Complicated pregnancy and/or delivery, heavy and/or recurred somatic diseases, speech-formation delay, conflicting social situations appear the main provoking/supporting factors of. The stuttering covers physical and psychological symptoms. The physicals are manifested in speech muscle twitches, while the psychological in phobias. Neurotic and neurotic-like stuttering types are differentiated. The neurotics arise on the background of psychological disorders, the linkage of the neurotic-likes with any concrete factor being mostly difficult or impossible. It is emphasized that the stuttering treatment demands the complex application of pedagogical and medical means and aims the cure of the whole organism, while predominantly of the nervous system, and improvement of mode-of-life conditions of the sufferer. The necessity of the cure of associated diseases is emphasized. It is stated that the stuttering psychotherapy implies the blockage of mental disturbances, while the speech recovery trials intends the establishment of adequate voice, articulation, and respiratory functions. In utilized habilitation/rehabilitation means the particular attention has to draw to initiation of well-balanced logo-rhythms. The regulation of hemisphere speech-center function is a primary target of the vocal exercises applied. Achievements attained in study sessions are regularly spread over the vital situations. The favorable social environment is also regarded as an important item for the pathology defeat. The significance of the systematic cure interventions is emphasized the frequent and/or long-term pauses between being judged as the cause of habit remissions happened. Just compound and customary treatment and active involvement of parents and other family members in applied efforts ensure the better chances for the positive care output.