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Stuttering from a perspective of adult stutterers
Pelclová, Martina ; Klenková, Jiřina (advisor) ; Korandová, Zuzana (referee)
The subject of this master thesis is to examine balbutism from a perspective of adult stutterers. The thesis is broken down into a theoretical part and a practical part. The theoretical part is subsequently divided into five chapters. The introductory chapter defines motivation and a process of motivating another person. The following chapter deals with communication, an anxiety and panic resulting from communication, a motivation towards communication and additionally also the speech impairments under which stuttering is included. The third chapter specifically deals with stuttering, its origins, symptoms and classification. The fourth chapter describes diagnostic methods of stuttering employed in Czech Republic. The chapter about therapeutic methods concludes the theoretical part of the thesis. The practical part is centered on a research analysis and employs a qualitative method, namely a grounded theory method. Eight adult stutterers between the ages 31 and 50 were included in the study that took a form of questionnaire. Its primary aim was to examine the way in which adult stutterers view their own stuttering. The secondary aim was to determine what advice would the study group give to people suffering from a similar condition. The result of this thesis has been achieved by constructing three...

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