[Clinico-physiologic study of several aspects of the pathogenesis of stuttering].

Data on a comparative clinico-physiological study of children with neurotical and pseudoneurotic stuttring are presented. Clinically 60 patients from 2.5 to 6 years were studied, among them the articulatory and respiratory component of expressive speech formation was studied in 30 cases. The data indicate the complication and deepening of the neurotical and pseudoneurotic symptomatology in the age group from 5 to 6 years. A correlation of clinical and physiological parameters showed that neurotical stuttering appears against the background of a normally formed speech stereotype. In treating neurotical stuttering more attention should be paid to medicamental tranquilizing therapy and a correct psychotherapeutical approach, along with logopedical lessons. In pseudo-neurotical stuttering there is a pathological onthogenesis of the speech functioning--an abnormal formation of the speech stereotype. In both cases durative logopedical correlational work and an active goal-directed medicamental treatment are required.