What is Stuttering?
What is Stuttering?
- Stuttering: Speech difficulty involving repetition.
Stuttering: Introduction
Types of Stuttering:
Broader types of Stuttering:
How many people get Stuttering?
Prevalance of Stuttering: about 1% of adults
Prevalance Rate of Stuttering: approx 1 in 100 or 1.00% or 2.7 million people in USA [about data]
Who gets Stuttering?
Patient Profile for Stuttering: Common in children 2-5
What causes Stuttering?
Causes of Stuttering: see causes of Stuttering
What are the symptoms of Stuttering?
Symptoms of Stuttering:
see symptoms of Stuttering
Can anyone else get Stuttering?
Inheritance:
see inheritance of Stuttering
Stuttering: Testing
Diagnostic testing: see tests for Stuttering.
Misdiagnosis: see misdiagnosis and Stuttering.
How is it treated?
Treatments for Stuttering:
see treatments for Stuttering
Prevention of Stuttering:
see prevention of Stuttering
Research for Stuttering:
see research for Stuttering
Society issues for Stuttering
Hospitalization statistics for Stuttering:
The following are statistics from various sources about hospitalizations and Stuttering:
- 0.0001% (13) of hospital consultant episodes were for stuttering or stammering in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 99% of hospital consultant episodes for stuttering or stammering required hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 74% of hospital consultant episodes for stuttering or stammering were for men in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 26% of hospital consultant episodes for stuttering or stammering were for women in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
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Organs Affected by Stuttering:
Organs and body systems related to Stuttering include:
Name and Aliases of Stuttering
Main name of condition: Stuttering
Other names or spellings for Stuttering:
stammering
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