Early treatment of stuttering can help children
New investigations suggest that treating the problem of stuttering early in life, like before the children join school, can go a long way in curing the condition. The research report on the said topic came out in the latest // edition of BMJ. About 5% of children begin to stutter, usually in the third and fourth years of life. The consensus is that early intervention in the preschool y...Supporting children with stress key to improve stuttering
Researchers are studying ways to help children who stutter, cope with their stressors and emotions as this has a bearing on how the child improves with the speech difficulty //. "Our findings indicate that young children who stutter are more apt to be emotionally aroused, less able to settle down once aroused and less able to control their attention and emotion during everyday stress...With an aim to cure stuttering
A medicine to cure stammering could be developed from the findings of a psychiatrist of University of California//. Stuttering afflicts an estimated 3 million Americans. Dr. Gerald Maguire of the UC-Irvine, who stuttered as a child, is supporting the Indevus Pharmaceuticals in the effort to find a cure. The largest clinical trial of a drug for stuttering gave hopeful results, accordin...