Stuttering

God created Human beings with some characteristics of which we were born and some of which were acquired throughout our upbringing. One can be leader, another an athlete. Again one can be born with a disorder such as Sickle cell disease or born with speech disfluency which is called stutering. I will talk about the stuttering since I was born with it.
So what is stuttering? Is it a curse of a family? Is it acquired or inherited from our genetors? How to deal with a stutter? Who can be a stutter.
I will start by the last question by saying that eventhough statistics show that women compare to men are four times less likely than their counterpart to become stutter, anyone can be affected by it.
 The recent research  done by Dr Salynn Boyles, revealed that the cause of stuttering is genetic. No wonder why in a family we can find siblings stuttering like in my case, my old brother stutters. Therefore stuttering is more likely inherited than acquired. This research has also invalidated the notion that stuttering is a curse. Other causes might be that the person has had a stroke or  a brain injury. This affects the speech by hindering the conduction of signals produced by the brain which send them to the muscles and nerves who make possible the speech. Eventhough stuttering is not cause by anxiety, tiredness and stress, they  worsened the person's stuttering. What is stuttering then?
Stuttering, according to researchers and many organizations that advocate for stutters is a speech disfluency that hinders the communication by the production of disfluencies such as repeating words, production of 'beuhh", "euhh", "aahh" and others which precede the words or statements the stutter wanted to articulate or produce. Some stutters are afraid to speak in front of a group or a large audience and that is why you will see them avoiding activities that needs their participation in order to hide their disfluency, some may refuse to speak. Stuttering also is obviously recognizable by movement of jaw, mouth, eyes when the stutter speaks. The stutter can feel excluded or worthless in society because of his disability to speak normally. So what to do when in front of a stutter.
In front of a stutter, be patient. Since the stutter needs more time to say what he wants and intends to, the listener should give him attention and time for that. Stutter like to know that people are supportive in their struggle to speak fluently. Avoid expressions such as "don't hurry", "take a breath before speaking"
 or "don't be tense" since these expressions are seen by a stutter as demeaning and suggest that his disability is more likely to overcome if putting himself in such favorable conditions. Ask the stutter how he wants you to respond when he is stuttering? This will give him more confidence to express himself. Please be considerate to a stutter's self-esteem and try not to treat him like a child. The more interest you show to a stutter, the more he will express himself with confidence and less disfluency.

This post was done by the data collected from;
Stuttering Foundation of America
http://www.stutteringhelp.org/
Boyles, Salynn; M.D
http://children.webmed.com/news