Stuttering usually manifests itself even in childhood and belongs to the category of social and health problems that interfere with normal communication and contributing to the development of psychological complexes, which may adversely affect the development of the personality of the child. That is why the solution to this problem is a global challenge that requires considerable effort on the part of the patient and by the physician.

At the core of stuttering are usually neurological disorders .  So, very often the child begins to stutter after a strong fright or nervous and emotional stress .  Thus there is a significant imbalance in the brain centers responsible for reproduction, perception and speech analysis .  Since the final formation of speech functions ends approximately to five years of age, up to this time the child is retained a higher risk of stuttering than in older children .  Other causes of stuttering include traumatic brain injury, the resulting child, for example, even during childbirth .  Also, experts say a higher frequency of speech defects among children whose next of kin have been (or is) a stutterer, that is, there is a hereditary factor .  Not so long ago in Soviet times, first graders who were left-handed, forced to take a pen or pencil in his right hand, and only much later agreed unjustified and even harmful such a violent re-training, as it is also a kind of stress for the child's body .  If such a "remake" under the right-handed left-hander carried out as early as the preschool period, the probability of occurrence of stuttering in children multiplies .

Symptoms stuttering widely known: hesitation in the pronunciation of words (often on the first syllable or the beginning of the phrase), apparent power, including the face, and even chewing respiratory muscles. In some cases, the person starts to blush, that may be a result of stress, and a consequence of human emotional response to their stuttering. However, all of the above concerns expressed by the signs of stuttering, and recognize this defect is very important in the process of its formation, as early treatment provides a fast and high quality results. Therefore, in no case should not be ignored repeated hesitation and stretching vowels, for which sometimes masked by the first symptoms of stuttering.

The first attempts to treat stuttering implemented even in ancient times, with each of them had their own "recipes". Suffice it to recall the famous Demosthenes of ancient Greece, honed smooth speech using a handful of stone, which he stuffed into his mouth and thus coached his speech to the public. Until recently it recommended the use of drugs that have a depressing effect on the nervous system, but serious side effects, including physical dependence on drugs, forced to refuse such treatment. Current methods involve professional help logopedist Speech   and special computer programs that form the desired speech rate and smoothing display defect .  In addition, the popular use of acupuncture therapy: this can be either a specially designed finger massage, are working on specific points on the face, neck, neck and upper back, or acupuncture .  However, although these methods and reduce the (sometimes very significantly) stuttering completely eliminate the root causes of neurological disease, they are not able to .  That's why the most appropriate and effective treatment can be carried out only experienced psychotherapist .  In psychotherapy expert establishes contact with his patient at a mental level that allows us to determine the true cause of stuttering and develop appropriate treatment policy .  In addition, the therapist may resort to hypnosis, whose effectiveness in the treatment of stuttering has long been proved .  It should also be noted that patients with a balanced character and a more relaxed attitude to his ailment is much more amenable to therapeutic correction than too worried about it, patients .

Zhiguli Andrew