Life Style Profile of School Age Children Suffering From Pathological Stuttering

Ahmed, Mervat Ali; Bahgat, Rahma Soliman; Darwish, Mohammed El-Sayed

doi:10.21608/tsnj.2012.74451

Life Style Profile of School Age Children Suffering From Pathological Stuttering

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ B. S. C. Nursing, Faculty of Nursing Tanta University

² Professor of Pediatric Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Tanta University

³ Lecturer of Phonetics E.N.T Department, Faculty of Medicine, Head of Speech Therapy Center

10.21608/tsnj.2012.74451

Abstract

Stuttering as a speech event that contains intraphonemic disruption, part-word repetitions, monosyllabic whole word reputations, prolongation and silent fixations (blocks).The present study aimed to investigate the lifestyle profile of children suffering from pathological stuttering and to identify the factors that worsen or improve the child with pathological stuttering. This study followed a descriptive design. The study was conducted on 60 children who were attending the speech therapy in Tanta University. Data were collected by using two tools: questionnaire sheet, observation checklist. The results revealed, a mean age of stuttering children, it was found that 63.3% of children with stuttering had a mean age of 8.17+ 1.66 years. Significant difference was found between the mean age of stuttering children and his socialization. Significant difference was found between the mean age of stuttering children and response to treatment. From the present study it can be concluded that the pathological stuttering as disease is easy to diagnose, difficult to treat has many negative impact on physical, psychological, social and spiritual aspect of children life. This study recommends that searching for the causation of stuttering. Health education and counseling of stuttering children and their mothers includes follow up to speech therapy, family