When a doctor tells some of his patients (or his parents) that a visitor has a swearing speech, most often he has to explain what he means. The term is incomprehensible even to a literate person who fully understands what chanting is. Meanwhile, the voiced symptom is very serious and, if detected, requires a detailed and multidirectional examination.
What is a chanted speech
Speech disorders doctors revealed a huge amount. But ordinary members of society offhand remember only stuttering and burr. But scanned speech is one of the three most common. Recognizing her is no more difficult than a lisp. A chanting person speaks extremely slowly, almost reciting. Words are literally pronounced syllable by syllable, just like children read from an ABC book. Monotony is also characteristic of such speech, although the opposite situation is also possible, when the patient actually has every syllableemphasizes intonation or pronounced stress.
Why do people chant
Scanned speech most often occurs in people with pathological lesions of the cerebellum or other parts of the brain closely related to it. It is also considered a symptom very characteristic of multiple sclerosis. And the more it progresses, the more this defect manifests itself.
It is not uncommon for swearing to occur after strokes. Almost always - if the hemorrhage is localized in the cerebellar hemispheres or directly in the brain stem. Hemorrhage of traumatic origin as a result of traumatic brain injury often also entails the appearance of a chant.
Such a speech disorder can be a consequence of intoxication with lead and mercury compounds.
Treatment is always preceded by identifying the reasons for which the chanted speech appeared. And therapy is aimed at eliminating them, and it is coordinated with a number of highly specialized specialists: an ENT specialist, an otoneurologist, a neurophysiologist, a neurooculist, and others.
Baby chant
Somewhat different is the case with children. Scanned speech of the child can also be caused by the pathological course of pregnancy (fetal hypoxia, toxicosis, especially early ones, Rhesus conflict). Possible factors of its occurrence are recognized as birth trauma and asphyxia during childbirth, prematurity and a strong degree of the so-called jaundice of newborns. Many of the risk factors can be reversed if the speech impediment is detected early.
