[Stuttering and Tourette's syndrome: a short tutorial and account of a four years experience in a stuttering clinic constriction of the vocal tract].
The author presents a short tutorial of Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome followed by a state of the art of review of the clinical links between stuttering and the different kinds of Tourette and tics disorders. The author relates her own experience of working for four consecutive years at the new stuttering diagnostic center at the "Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou ". The article ends with a practical review of the actual therapies available when such a diagnosis is made.
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Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, AP-HP, Paris, France. monfpfau@club-internet.fr
D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D013342:Stuttering / Q000209:etiology*; D013997:Time Factors; D005879:Tourette Syndrome / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis