[Infanto-juvenile stuttering: a multidisciplinary approach].
The authors have conducted a clinical, psychopathological, exploratory research, with a multidisciplinary approach, applied to a sample of 52 children and adolescents stutterers, whose ages ranged between 3.6 and 19.8 years. They made a comparison of two groups, according to the moment in which they began stuttering and the level of development of their previous language. They emphasized the importance of studying the disorders of psychomotor and perceptive-motor functions; of learning disabilities, and the difficulties of interpersonal relationships in the family group and at school. They concluded that stuttering would be a symptom referred to a disorder in the rhythm of speaking, frequently associated to developmental deviations of different areas of language, psychomotor and/or perceptive-motor functions. Stuttering presents itself in normal as well as abnormal personality structures. Its beginning, persistence, and aggravation is frequently associated with unsatisfactory verbal and non verbal communication patterns.