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Psychosocial Study of Stammering in Egyptian Children

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Ahmed Okasha ,
Zeinab Bishry ,
M. Kamel  and
A. H. Hassan
Ahmed Okasha
Affiliation:
Ain Shams University Hospitals, Neuropsychiatry Department, Cairo, Egypt
Zeinab Bishry
Affiliation:
Ain Shams University Hospitals, Neuropsychiatry Department, Cairo, Egypt
M. Kamel
Affiliation:
Ain Shams University Hospitals, Neuropsychiatry Department, Cairo, Egypt
A. H. Hassan
Affiliation:
Ain Shams University Hospitals, Neuropsychiatry Department, Cairo, Egypt
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Stammering has been defined as an interruption in the normal rhythm of speech of such a frequency and abnormality as to attract attention, interfere with communication or cause distress to a stammerer or his audience (Bloodstein, 1960).

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 124 , Issue 583 , June 1974 , pp. 531 - 533
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1974 

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