WHAT CAUSES STUTTERING? IS STUTTERING A PHYSICAL OR PSYCHOLOCAL DISORDER?
Stuttering is not a physical disorder. There is nothing with stutterers’ tongues or jaw or vocal folds. Stuttering is not a psychological disorder. While stuttering can cause speech-related fears and anxieties in adults and older children, stutterers are, on average, psychologically normal. Anxiety, low confidence, nervousness, and stress do not cause stuttering. Stuttering a developmental disorder. Children develeop capabilities in a certain order, e.g., most children crawl before thay walk. An unknown factor or combination of factors causes some children’s speech to develop abnormally. As the child grows what appeared as a minor disfunction can develop into a major disability. Theories proposed since the 1930s that stuttering was caused by parental behavior, such as parents reacting negatively to children’s normal dysfluencies, have been disproven. Stuttering has been correlated with certain genes; however, a genetic cause for stuttering has yet to be proven. Many studies have invest
