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Speech & LanguageMild
Stuttering
Audiology & Speech Therapy · Speech & Language
Mild
Severity
Common in early childhood — affects up to 5% of children at some point, with about 1% continuing to stutter into adulthood
Prevalence
No
Contagious
Audiology & Speech Therapy
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🔬Causes & Risk Factors
- 1The exact cause of stuttering is not completely understood
- 2but it is believed to result from a combination of genetic factors
- 3since it often runs in families
- 4and differences in the brain's language processing and speech motor control regions. Developmental stuttering
- 5the most common type
- 6emerges as children are learning language and is thought to reflect a temporary or persistent mismatch between language development and speech motor coordination. Less commonly
- 7stuttering can develop following a neurological injury such as a stroke or head trauma
- 8or be associated with significant emotional trauma.
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