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Abstract
Stuttering is a neurodevelopmental disorder whose primary symptoms are dysfluencies, involuntary disruptions in the normal flow of speech stuttering like disfluency (SLDs) include syllable and sound repetitions, dysrhythmic phonations such as blocks and prolongations and broken words
The lifetime incidence of stuttering is estimated at approximately 4–5%, with a 1% point prevalence.
The speech disruptions may be accompanied by behaviors representing effortful motor control such as rapid eye blinking or lip tremor. Stuttering affects approximately 5 percent of all children at some time in their life, most often between 2 and 5 years of age when speech and language skills are developing rapidly.
Determination the relation between language disorders and stuttering is important because there might be a subgroup of children who require a different type of assessment and treatment procedures than those who only stutter.
The aim of this work is to establish baseline data about the size and distribution of language disorders among Egyptian stuttering children in order to put a plan of early detection, proper assessment and intervention of these problems if possible.
One hundred and four preschool age children were included in this study. Fifty two of them were stuttering (43 males and 9 females) and the fifty two children were non stuttering (39 males and 13 females). The mean age for the stuttering children was 4.28 ± 1.10 year and months and the mean age for non stuttering children was 4.43 ±1.35 year and months. The children in the two groups were matched in their age and sex distribution as much as possible in.
The children of this study were subjected to the protocol of language assessment which applied in Phoniatric Unit, Minia University Hospital:
Elementary diagnostic procedures: (patient’s interview, general examination and ENT examination).
Clinical diagnostic aids: (Evaluation of the various aptitudes by formal testing, audiological examination and language evaluation by using the Arabic Preschool Language Scale-4 ”APLS-4”).
Additional instrumental measures: (computerized tomography scanning CT and EEG if indicated).
The results obtained from this study showed that:
• There was significant difference between the two groups as regard the consanguinity.
• There was significant difference between the two groups as regard the IQ.
• There was significant difference between the two groups as regard the standard score of receptive language, standard score of expressive language and standard score of total language.
• There was highly significant differences were obtained between the study group and control as regard the articulatory.
• There was significant negative correlation between SSI and standard of receptive, standard of expressive and standard of total.
• There was a high positive significant correlation between SSI and DLD (SLI).
• There was positive significant correlation between SSI and DLD (below average).
• There was a high positive significant correlation between IPD and DLD (SLI).
• There was positive significant correlation between IPD and DLD(below average).
• There was negative significant correlation between IPD and Standard of expressive and standard of total.
• There was negative significant correlation between repetition and Standard of expressive and standard of total.
• There was negative significant correlation between prolongation and Standard of expressive.
• There was positive significant correlation between SSI and articulation.
The results from this study reported that stutterers were delayed in language and children who stutter score lower on measures of expressive and/or receptive language, as well as exhibit significantly more grammatical errors in their conversational speech and simpler, less mature language when compared to their normally fluent peers. So, early consultation is recommended for the stuttering children for early detection and proper management of any language disorders.