0 to speak or say something with unusual pauses or repeated sounds, either because of speech problems or because of fear or nervousness : --
[ + speech ] "Wh-when can we g-go?" she stammered.
1 a speech problem in which someone speaks with unusual pauses or repeated sounds : --
2 to speak or say something with unusual pauses or repeated sounds; stutter: --
They work not only with child stammers and stutters, but with children with a range of psychological and physical disabilities.
There are the fluency disorders such as stammering when the continuity of speech is interrupted.
In adult life the major causes of speech impairment are stammering, and that occurring as a result of neurological disease, particularly stroke.
They are: whether a man is strong and tall, whether he is neatly clothed, whether he stammers, and so forth.
Stammering is not my usual mode of speech.
At one time it was devoted almost entirely to dealing with stammering.
We know that the frustration which this set up often resulted in such manifestations as stammering.
Other children need assistance because of delayed or disordered articulation or speech patterns, or problems with fluency, such as stammering.
