REVOLUTIONARY NEW TREATMENT FOR STAMMERING IN INDIA

Stammering medically means disorder of speech, where fluency of speech is affected with hesitations, involuntary pause(s) and repetition of words or prolongation of sounds. It is otherwise called as stuttering. Stammerers face difficulty while attending interviews, addressing the public, etc. Incidences – Stammering seems to affect 2-5 per cent of children around the age of 5. It commonly affects boys more than girls. Also, its incidence is more common in the first born male child. The exact reason is unknown. Causes – Generally, stammering as a disorder will not arise from physical problems or problems in understanding or intelligence. It seems to occur due to instability of the brain in correlating all the signals to trigger the vocal apparatus to produce effective speech. Since the exact point of origin cannot be located, causes are often supposed and not definite. Anxiety, nervousness, tension, fear, low-confidence, situations, knowledge of language, etc., are often blamed. Symptoms –Symptoms of stammering vary from person to person. Stammerers may have a few or most of the following symptoms: - Hesitation to speak - Difficulty in finding a proper word – feels brain had been wired - May stop in the middle of a speech to come to a standstill with fear, anxiety and tension - Need more time to complete speech or could not finish it - Loss of control over speech - Swallow words often - Words/speech come in parts - Repeating the same words or using unnecessary words often - While worrying more about it, it causes more and more problems - Repetition of initial consonants especially with vowels - A, E, I, O, U - Felt as if vocal cord gets tightened with prolongation of sounds especially with sounds of A, P, S, T, V, X - Usually try to avoid eye contact (to whom they speak) to avoid stammer - Speak fluently when emotionally relaxed Complications – Stammering, if left untreated in the initial stages, often causes inevitable complications at the emotional level. It can reflect in the personality, behaviour, self-esteem and social interactions. Stammerers often feel ashamed, worthless and guilty to appear in public which can affect their career. General treatment – There is no known specific treatment in Allopathy for stammering. They totally depend on speech therapy and behaviour therapy for management. They advise parents to provide good attention and support to the sufferer to build confidence to root out fear, nervousness and anxiety. Homeopathic approach – Even though modern system of medicines claims that stammering cannot be cured altogether with medicines and can only be managed with behavioural and speech therapy, Homeopathy can provide very good relief for stammerers. Homeopathic medicines can support, set right and correlate one’s mind, nerves and vocal apparatus to reduce pause or stammer in course of time. Stammering, as a complaint, needs to be treated at the earliest to cope with the situation. Advertiser: Dr Ramesh Bhardwaj Homoeopathic world, Noida