Patient's question:
I started having stuttering symptoms since I was a child, and it seems to have gotten worse as I grew older. I'm so suffering... Can this be cured? How can it be treated?Doctor's answer:
Hello: Stuttering Treatment(1) Correct Understanding of Stuttering
We know that everyone has experienced stuttering at some point, from great figures and celebrities to ordinary people. Anyone may experience disfluencies such as repeated words, prolonged syllables, or pauses under external stimuli, emotional excitement, or when their thoughts have not yet organized or when they speak too hastily. However, after these situations pass, they can speak fluently again. Stuttering holds no medical significance for them because they pay no mind to it and do not fear it. Even if they are reminded or mocked, they remain unfazed. Due to their healthy and correct attitude toward stuttering, they do not develop psychological barriers, and thus stuttering does not create a vicious cycle in their lives. Through learning, we must abandon our past denial, avoidance, or exaggeration of stuttering. We should adopt a correct attitude toward it. Stuttering does not involve organic abnormalities; it is a language function disorder.
(2) Psychological Therapy
Stuttering is not an organic disease but a psychological language disorder and a bad speech habit. It is also a fluency disorder. Therefore, psychological treatment is required.
(3) Changing Old Speech Habits and Practicing New Pronunciation and Speaking Techniques
During stuttering correction, it is necessary to discard old speech habits and teach stuttering patients how to practice new pronunciation techniques.
(4) Practical Language Exercises
It is recommended that stuttering patients practice speaking in various settings.
(5) Consolidating Pronunciation Learning and Preventing Relapse