Why should we not expect him to stop stuttering?

Because although stuttering can spend alone is not always the case. When consulting for early stuttering, the rate of return to a fluid language in adolescence is 90%. However, if we do nothing, there will be 25% of children who continue to stutter. Knowing that this condition heals more easily it is caught early, why wait?

Should we go see a speech therapist for stuttering, even before 4 years?
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Yes, ideally before age 4 and a half, because when we look at early, it often takes one to three sessions with the speech therapist to see the disorder disappear if not accompanied by other difficulties. Over the period of stuttering has been brief, the more chance it stops quickly is important. And it is mainly the parents who will see more than the child! In fact, parents need to know how to behave to help the child to leave his parents difficulté.Comment can they help their child not to stutter?

“Prevention, for four years and a half is the art of lowering tensions, to understand the suffering of children” said Anne-Marie Simon. Here are some tips:

- Do not play the fake indifference and do not pretend anything. The child stutters, he knows he suffers. If the problem becomes a taboo subject, he imagines that it is very serious because we can not even speak …

- Be a good listener child. Emphasize what he has to say rather than how he does it. Otherwise, the language becomes stressful for the child as a tool to handle well, and not a natural way to communicate. It can develop anxiety and distress at not being listened to what he is but what it does.

- Know you adapt the language of the child. It is still small, get within range. Use simple words.

- Do not speak too quickly, it’s hard to follow you. He stutters possibly because he tries to speak as fast as you!

- Do not ask too many questions burst, it will be difficult to understand due to time and even more to respond.

- Do not use a language too complex with long sentences.

- Do not always correct in his manner of speaking.

- Do not change the subject too often, it’s hard to follow.

- When he speaks, to answer what he says and does not speak his way of saying it.

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So is this the fault of the parents if their child stutters?

Not at all. In the same context, another child might very well not stutter. It may be a slight delay phonological as is the case for 40% of children with this difficult language. He may be anxious due to overheating emotional, separations, anger, frustration, desire for autonomy … It can also live in family events, sources of insecurity for him, moving, birth of a brother or sister, parents separated …

Nevertheless, one can not blame the parents. But they are not the cause of stuttering, they can be co-therapists with the speech therapist, if they would bother. Their efforts are mostly successful.

(1) A big thank you to Anne-Marie Simon, therapist and author of a business item: “Stuttering in children: early intervention in very young children, and treatment for children of school age and pre -teen “.