The Causes of Logoneurosis in Childhood

Abstract

The purpose of our research is to develop the problem of stuttering in the psychological aspect to reveal its genesis, to understand the behavior of people who stutter in the process of communication, to identify their individual psycho-logical characteristics.research methods. The research methods were the method of observation and the empirical study of patients. The place of organizing the empirical stage of our research was the psychiatric hospital No 1 in Kyiv. With the help of clinical, pathopsychological and anamnestic methods 86 children at the age 3­12 years old (the average age is 8 ± 0.5 years old) with logoneurosis in anamnesis were diagnosed.the results of the research. The pathogenesis of stuttering is studied and those who stuttered are noted to have various autonomic changes. 84% of peo-ple who stuttered are considered to have autonomic dystonia. Among 98% of people who suffered from logoneurosis, 20% had a high intracranial pressure and extrapyramidal disorders. It is studied that those people who stuttered were born with vasoneurotics. It was quite objectively showed a change in the neu-rovegetative response in those ones who stuttered during seizures: in 100% of cases there was dilation of the pupils (mydriasis), while in a case of people who spoke correctly, the width of the pupils during speech did not change or there was some narrowing (miosis).conclusions. The reasons of logoneurosis are: neuropathic burden of par-ents (nervous, infectious and somatic diseases that weaken or disrupt the func-tions of the central nervous system); neuropathic features of a stuttering person (night terrors, enuresis, irritability, emotional tension); constitutional predisposi-tion (diseases of the autonomic nervous system and increased susceptibility to higher nervous activity, its special predisposition to mental trauma); hereditary burden; brain damage in different periods of the personal development.

The Ways of Organizing of Logoneurosis Treatment: The Aspect of Physical Rehabilitation

“…-insufficient development of motility, sense of rhythm, facial expressions and articulatory movements (Kharchenko & Zavadska, 2022).…”

“…Anatomical and physiological causes: physical diseases with encephalitic consequences; injuries -such as intrauterine, natural, often with asphyxia, concussion; organic disorders of the brain, which can damage the mechanisms of the subcortex, regulatory movements; exhaustion or fatigue of the nervous system as a result of intoxication and other diseases that weaken the central speech apparatus: measles, typhoid, rickets, worms, especially whooping cough, diseases of internal secretion, metabolism; diseases of the nose, pharynx and larynx; imperfection of the sound apparatus in cases of dyslalia, dysarthria and speech delay (Kharchenko & Zavadska, 2022).…”

“…Mental and social causes of logoneurosis: shortterm, one-time mental trauma (fear, stress); long-term (longitudinal) mental trauma, which means improper upbringing in the family: spoilage, imperative upbringing, unequal upbringing, upbringing of "the exemplary" child; chronic conflict experiences, longterm negative emotions in the form of persistent mental stress or unresolved, constantly fixed conflict situations and situations of cognitive dissonance (internal conflict); acute severe mental trauma, strong, sudden shocks that cause acute reactions of affect: a state of horror, excessive joy; incorrect speech formation in childhood: speech on the breath, rapid speech, speech disorders, rapid nervous speech of parents; overloading young children with language material; age-inappropriate complication of language material and thinking (abstract concepts, complex phrase construction); polyglossia: simultaneous mastery of different languages at the early age, which can cause stuttering, usually in any one language; imitating another stuttering person (Kharchenko & Zavadska, 2022).…”