STAMMERING- AN AYURVEDA VIEW

Abstract

Man acquires prestigious position in life because of his unlimited thoughts and ambitions. It is discriminative capacity and power expressing thoughts in the form of speech makes him to conquer all walks of life. Struggle between health and disease begins with the onset of life i.e. since childhood and main aim is to gain healthy childhood. Child is multifaceted entity of society.Stammering is a disorder of human communication prevails 1- 5% of children population. It is defined as disruption of fluency of verbal expression and is by spasmodic repetition and prolongation of vocal sounds by fear, anxiety and struggle to avoid speech errors. In current system of medicine Speech Therapy takes the upper hand in the management of Stuttering. There is no elaborate explanation regarding the speech disorder in Ayurvedic literature.