Although I don't stutter, nor do I have friends who do, but when I read about the people who do stutter in my psycholinguistic text book, I began to wonder about the cause of stuttering, and whether or not there might be a cure for it. According to my text book, plus some convenient Googling, I found out that different people tend to stutter for different reasons, and they may vary from mental disorders to speaking habits. Some are caused by tension and stress, some by certain phobias, and some from traumatic experiences. I’ve also heard some cases of stuttering were caused by forcing left handed people to use their right hand as their dominant hand, and the stress roused would indirectly cause them to stutter.
So far, the most popular treatment seems to be targeted therapies in accordance to the different reasons that may cause stuttering. If the cause of stuttering were from talking habits, or from tension and nervousness, some of the treatments may include teaching stuttering patients to learn to slow their speaking speed down to a considerate pace, in order to buy more time for them to process and prepare the forthcoming words and tenses. If the problem was caused by physical brain damage or injuries, the treatments would then include certain medications, mental rehabilitation, or cognitive repairs of some kind.
So in conclusion, I don’t think all stuttering cases need to be treated, so long as the conditions won’t affect mutual communication. However, if the stuttering is severe enough to obstruct normal conversations, then there’s no need to worry as well, since there are many efficient ways of treatments and cures.
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dear Danny, the information you provided is very interesting. Human is so complicated that, such as, stuttering, can be traced to so many reasons. If you've found out any interesting study about human science, please share with me.
回覆刪除Carrie
Dear Carrie,
回覆刪除I'm glad you found my findings interesting.
When I read about people who stutter in my psycholinguistics text book, I started to wonder about the cause and reasons behind this. Then I started to wonder if there was a cure or treatment for people who stutter.
I had a lot more understanding on the subject after spending some brief time Googling, along with further details on the subject by our psycholinguistics instructor, Professor Yeldham.
And so I wrote my journal with my findings as my topic.
If I do get further studies on human science, I'll let you know.
Sincerely,
Danny