2019 Vol.4 No.2:4 Review Article iMedPub Journals www.imedpub.com 1 © Under License of Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License | This article is available in: http://healthcare-communications.imedpub.com/archive.php Journal of Healthcare Communications ISSN 2472-1654 Kourkouta Lambrini 1* , Frantzana Aikaterini 2 , Koukourikos Konstantinos 3 , Iliadis Christos 4 , Tsaloglidou Areti 5 1 Professor, Nursing Department, Alexander Technological Educatonal Insttute of Thessaloniki, Greece 2 RN, General Hospital of Thessaloniki “Papanikolaou”, Greece 3 Clinical Professor of Nursing Department, Alexander Technological Educatonal Insttute of Thessaloniki, Greece 4 RN, Private Health Center, Thessaloniki, Greece 5 Assistant Professor of Nursing Department, Alexander Technological Educatonal Insttute of Thessaloniki, Greece *Corresponding author: Kourkouta Lambrini, Professor  laku1964@yahoo.gr Nursing Department, Alexander Technological Educatonal Insttute of Thessaloniki, Greece. Tel: +302310013501 Citaton: Lambrini K, Aret T, Aikaterini F, Konstantnos K, Christos I (2019) Treatment of Stuteringin Children. J Healthc Commun Vol.4 No.2:4 Received: May 13, 2019; Accepted: July 09, 2019; Published: July 16, 2019 Treatment of Stuttering in Children Abstract Introducton: Stutering is a communicaton difculty that creates problems in speech freedom. It contains uncontrollable, refexive stufs, elongatons, repettons of sounds, syllables, or words. At the same tme, it is accompanied by feelings of frustraton, fear, shame and low self-esteem. Aim: The aim of this review was the investgaton the treatment of stutering in children. Material-Methods: Extensive review of the recent literature was conducted in electronic databases (Medline, Scopus and Google Scholar) through the Associaton of Hellenic Academic Libraries (HEAL-Link) using the appropriate key words: stutering, health, disease as well as a combinaton of them. Results: Symptoms of stutering are accompanied by non-verbal behavior, such as lack of eye contact and blinking; these symptoms are not observed in children with normal speech difcultes. It is partcularly important the general level of child's speech development be assessed throughout the diagnostc process in order to ascertain whether there are additonal difcultes such as artculaton or phonological difcultes. The existence and degree of severity of such speech difcultes is usually taken into account so as therapeutc interventons to be ranked and classifed when designing any treatment. Conclusion: The stutering child makes an efort to stop or avoid stutering; it causes the child an intense psychological stress and afects his whole life. Each and every person who stuters has to cope, to a greater or lesser extent, with a symptomatological ensemble. Keywords: Treatment; Stutering; Children Introducton Stutering is reported to have existed since antquity, and it was known in all cultures. Hippocrates reported that stutering is due to a type of dysfuncton of the speech organs or artculators (Respiraton, Phonaton, Resonaton and Artculaton), as well as owing to the delayed development of inner speech or verbal thinking [1]. Aristotle believed that stutering is due to anatomical malformaton of speech organs or artculators and especially of the tongue [2]. Indeed, Ancient Egyptans had a symbol for stutering, which depicted a tremble that started from the ground and ended in the mouth. This symbolic representaton of an earthquake was the moment of stutering [3]. The most widespread theories, between Antquity and the Renaissance period, were those that considered that stutering resulted from an anomaly or a disorder associated with the structure and/or the functon of the tongue [4]. At the beginning of the 19th century, the frst papers were published. The problem was then scientfcally examined and the stmulus for the formaton of pedagogical and medical methods for its reducton or even eliminaton was provided. Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, a French physician, supported the view that DOI: 10.36648/2472-1654.4.2.154