Newly Recognized Stuttering in Three Young Children Following the Hojedk Earthquake in Iran
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Mohamadi, Mahan
Haghjoo, Asghar
Heidari, Mohammad
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Natural disasters, particularly earthquakes, in addition to physical complications, have always had psychological consequences for those affected by them. Stuttering is one of the psychological consequences of shocking events. After a 6.6 magnitude earthquake in Hojedk, Kerman, Iran, two 5-year-old children and a 4-year-old child with symptoms of discontinuous speech (including repeated sound, syllable, and words) were referred to the Kerman Welfare Organization's rehabilitation center (Kerman, Iran). After history-taking, it became clear that the children had begun to stutter after the earthquake due to fear and stress. Considering the importance of negative emotional experiences in the onset of stuttering, it cannot really be said with certainty that the negative experience of the earthquake initiated the stuttering. Rather, the stuttering had not been present before the earthquake and appeared after the event. These cases indicate the importance of psychosocial support and speech therapy after disasters, especially for children that have higher psychological vulnerability than other age groups.
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Prehospital and Disaster Medicine
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34
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4
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© World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2019. This is the author-manuscript version of this paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal website for access to the definitive, published version.
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Biomedical and clinical sciences
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Jafari, H; Mohamadi, M; Haghjoo, A; Heidari, M, Newly Recognized Stuttering in Three Young Children Following the Hojedk Earthquake in Iran, Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, 2019, 34 (4), pp. 456-457