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7 ways to help the child who stutters
Speak with your child in an unhurried way, pausing frequently. Wait a few seconds after your child finishes speaking before you begin to speak. Your own slow, relaxed speech will be far...read more
Are stuttering therapies succesful?
We hear from many parents who are concerned that stuttering therapy may not help their child. If your child has stuttered longer than a year, it is less likely that the stuttering will ever go away completely...read more
Does my child need stuttering therapy
Stuttering can become a lifelong part of talking for some people. However, it does not have to interfere with your child’s ability to make friends, participate in the classroom, make good grades, form l...read more
Etiology of stuttering
Although the etiology of stuttering is not fully understood, there is strong evidence to suggest that it emerges from a combination of constitutional and environmental factors. Geneticists ha...read more
Facts on stuttering
What is stuttering? Stuttering is a communication disorder in which the flow of speech is broken by repetitions (li-li-like this), prolongations (lllllike this), or abnormal stoppages (no so...read more
How to react when speking with someone who stutters
Stuttering may look like an easy problem that can be solved with some simple advice, but for many adults, it can be a chronic life-long disorder. Here are some ways that you, the listener, ca...read more
Neurogenic stuttering: some guidelines
Neurogenic stuttering is a type of fluency disorder in which a person has difficulty in producing speech in a normal, smooth fashion. Individuals with fluency disorders may have speech that s...read more
Stuttering and the bilingual child
According to the recent United States Census, one in seven, or 31.8 million, people in the United States speak a language other than English in the home. It is unknown how many people who stutter are bilingualread moreStuttering and tourette's syndrome
Tourette’s Syndrome (TS) was first described in 1885 as a separate disease by the French physician, Dr. Georges Gilles de la Tourette. One of the main characteristics is the presence of multiple motor a...read more
Stuttering: finding help
How can you tell if your child has a stuttering problem? If your child has been stuttering for only a few days or weeks, it’s very alarming but it is probably best to wait to see how the stuttering changes. Waiting a ...read more
Stuttering: risk factors
Family history There is now strong evidence that almost half of all children who stutter have a family member who stutters. The risk that your child is actually stuttering instead of just having normal d...read more
The child who stutters at school
Teachers often report difficulty in knowing what to do about a child who stutters in the classroom.For example... Should he be expected to give oral reports, read out loud, or answer questions? Should you talk to ...read more
What happens in stuttering therapy?
There are usually two main goals in stuttering therapy for this age group: Making talking easier, and Developing healthier attitudes and feelings about talking. Making talking easier is achieved by learning ...read more
What is cluttering?
Like stuttering, cluttering is a fluency disorder, but the two disorders are not the same. Cluttering involves excessive breaks in the normal flow of speech that seem to result from disorgani...read more
What makes you stutter?
Everyone is different. Your best friend may be better at math than you are. And maybe you're better than he is at art. Maybe another one of your friends is good at sports and can run really fast. Everyone is...read more
