spastic

Updated: June 4, 2025

This breaks up the speech in a manner somewhat similar to ordinary stuttering. Also known as "Tic Speech." SPASTIC SPEECH: This is often the result of infantile cerebral palsy, the characteristic symptom of the trouble being intense over-exertion, continued throughout a sentence, the syllables being equal in length and very laboriously enunciated.

Benjamin Nathaniel Bogue - Stammering, Its Cause and Cure