Uniting the Stuttering Community

[@biploveditor6995]

Sir what we have to. Do for control our stuttering. I am biplop from nepal . I am facing this problem hardly while taking with family member too . I am becoming depressed day by day by this problem 🥺😔😭 Plz help sir what i do for this😭🥺

[@stuttermind8307]

Hello Biplop! Thank you for reaching out and asking what you can do to improve your speech fluency. Please don't be depressed, there is hope for you to become a fluent speaker! I was a severe stutterer for 45 years and was able to retrain by my brain for fluent speech. You can also retrain your brain and improve your speech fluency and stop stuttering. Go to www.StutterMind.com and register for free and watch the Stuttering Causes & Remedies videos. They will help you understand why you stutter and explain a path to fluent speaking. I created StutterMind to coach people who stutter to become fluent speakers, using proven speech fluency tools and brain training. Check it out and let me know if you have any questions. I'd love to help you stop stuttering! Regards, Michael

[@UnrealTournament420]

Genetic? lol there is literally no evidence of that.

[@stuttermind8307]

Thank you for the message. Please consider the following studies that reference a genetic link to stuttering. Yairi, E., Ambrose, N., & Cox (1996) pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8844557/ "The fact that stuttering runs in families has been documented over a long period and has led to speculations and research about the role of a genetic component to this disorder. Although the genetic factor cannot be proved by familial aggregation and twin studies alone, such research has continued to provide support for a relationship between stuttering and genetics." Drayna, D., Kilshaw, J., & Kelly, J. (1999) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1288304/#RF4 "Regarding familial versus sporadic stuttering, our data agree with previous findings (Yairi et al. 1996) and suggest that approximately half of all cases of persistent stuttering are accompanied with a report of family history (468/966 from HCRI, 598/1,033 from AIS), while the remaining half appear to be sporadic. One possibility suggested by these data is that roughly half of all cases of stuttering is due to inherited causes, while the other half are due to poorly understood but nongenetic factors." Howie 1981 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7197739/ "The role of genetic factors in the etiology of stuttering was investigated in 30 pairs of same-sex twins, each pair containing at least one stutterer. Care was taken to ensure maximum accuracy in zygosity classification and objectivity in stuttering diagnosis. Zygosity classification was made independently of stuttering diagnosis. Pair-wise concordance for stuttering was significantly higher in identical twins (63%) than in fraternal same-sex twins (19%)." Note: only 1% of the population are people who stutter compared to 63% and 19% of identical and fraternal same-sex twins respectively. Felsenfeld and Plomin 1997 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9263943/ "Logistic regression analyses indicated that positive biological parental background was the best predictor of offspring affected status. The child's Full-Scale IQ and the HOME Scale of family environment were not significantly associated with speech outcome. These results provide additional evidence that genetic factors contribute importantly to the vertical transmission of some developmental speech disorders of unknown origin."