October 22: World Stuttering Day

World Stuttering Day was established in 1998 at the initiative of Californian activist Michael Sugarman and has been celebrated annually on October 22 every year. Over time it has been adopted by global stuttering organizations (ELSA, ISA, IFA).

The goal of International Stuttering Awareness Day is to raise public awareness, educate parents and stutterers about current views on stuttering and its treatment, raise awareness and educate educators, pediatricians and therapists and other mental health professionals and most importantly, the "opening" of the discussion on a topic that many "avoid".

Stuttering is one of the disorders in the flow and structure of speech, with psychogenic etiology. It is presented as an interruption of the time flow of speech by uncoordinated movements of the muscular system of respiration, the production of voice and the articulation of speech. This disorder can occur at the beginning or in the middle of speech, sometimes with repetitions of individual sounds, syllables or words (eg mimetic-clonic stuttering) and sometimes with persistent tingling, sticking to a phthong (eg mmmmitera). -tonic stuttering), which to overcome it the stutterer makes efforts with all his might.

Source: city.sigmalive