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This page is about speech problems, the album can be found at Hands All Over

Stuttering or stammering is a problem of speech. It is a speech disorder some people have. Five to six percent of children have a stammer while one percent of adults have a stammer. Men are four times more likely to have a stammer than women. Stammers normally start at 2-6 years and run in families.

The person knows what they want to say but the flow of their speech is ‘bumpy’ and may have some of the following features:

• Repetitions (of sounds, parts of words or phrases)
• Blocks (stops before words)
• Prolongations (making a sound longer, e.g. 'hhhhhhham' instead of 'ham')
• Fillers (using key phrases such as ‘you know what I mean’ to hide their difficulties)