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While there are many different types of speech disorders, stuttering is one of the most commonly known and least understood of them. Stuttering can be traced back through the centuries and yet the causes and, more importantly, the cure for it remains elusive. Stuttering is a speech disorder characterized by repetitions of sounds and syllables, a broken flow of speech, prolongation of sounds and syllables or abnormal stoppages in speech. It may also be accompanied by facial and body movements that are unusual. In England, it is referred to as stammering.

Remember Elmer Fudd and his constant laugh-getting way of saying ‘wascally wabbit’? Of course you do – and surely you laughed with him, as did good old Bugs Bunny. Regardless of the humor in the cartoon though, actual speech-language disorders are far from funny. Kids are harsh with each other and can cause great emotional trauma through teasing and much more. There are roughly 5 percent of all school-age kids that have some form of language disorder. There are two main categories, speech disorders and language disorders (as broken down by the American Speech Language Hearing Association)