Neuroplastic Control of Developmental Stutter via the Frontal Aslant Tract: Past, Present, and Future

Abstract

Even though reports of humans stuttering date back to Demosthenes in 354 BC, it is only in the last decade that this silenced 1% of the world's population have been given a voice.This has been helped particularly by the Movie the "Kings Speech" which depicted living with a DS and the human trauma associated with the debilitating condition. Historically, theories concerning the cause of DS have ranged from dryness of tongue to abnormal speech apparatus, while in the 20th century DS was thought to be a psychogenic disorder [10]. Today, approaches used by Speech

Eye movement as a simple, cost-effective tool for people who stutter: A case study

“…This novel self-help intervention aims to enable the person who stutters to circumvent an inadvertent block or repetition, should they choose to do so. It harnesses an unconscious synchronised linking of eye movement and the posterior of the tongue, discussed by the main authors in a previously published paper (McDonagh & Monaghan, 2019 ). Accessibility to speech-language pathology across South Africa has always been a key barrier to helping the most vulnerable (Khoza-Shangase & Mophosho, 2018 ), and there has been a call for research evidence that can help facilitate a culturally, linguistically and contextually compatible service delivery, within the population and context (Khoza-Shangase & Mophosho, 2021 ).…”