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Psychosocial Study of Stammering in Egyptian Children

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Ahmed Okasha
Affiliation:
Ain Shams University Hospitals, Neuropsychiatry Department, Cairo, Egypt
Zeinab Bishry
Affiliation:
Ain Shams University Hospitals, Neuropsychiatry Department, Cairo, Egypt
M. Kamel
Affiliation:
Ain Shams University Hospitals, Neuropsychiatry Department, Cairo, Egypt
A. H. Hassan
Affiliation:
Ain Shams University Hospitals, Neuropsychiatry Department, Cairo, Egypt

Extract

Stammering has been defined as an interruption in the normal rhythm of speech of such a frequency and abnormality as to attract attention, interfere with communication or cause distress to a stammerer or his audience (Bloodstein, 1960).

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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1974 

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