Toddler Stuttering. What parents need to know. 

Thank you for sharing. Our son didn't start to talk until he was three, but the stutter started when he started Reception class as he doesn't like change and can get stressed in school and was terrified of children when he first started in rising 3's and would become hysterical if a child went near him, he was always looking for a teacher to cling to. We have ignored our sons stuttering by not bringing attention to it and we allow him as long as he needs to communicate. He is now 6 year old and is still stuttering. We have found that different therapists are giving different advice, we just watched another video saying not to ignore it, but to talk about it with the child. It is so hard as parents to know what is right.

You are obviously such a great professional. You know your onions.

You yourself frequently interject “ah” and “uhm”:-) If a child’s mother or father speak in such a way, their child will imitate their speech behavior as well. Children imitate normal speech behaviors after normal speakers and abnormal speech after abnormal ones.

I’m worried, my daughter don’t stammer before, she recite her nursery rhymes fluently, but now before she could finish a sentence it will take her time and is affecting her school results 😢

As a Clinical Hypnotherapist I have found from my research, that stuttering is caused by a traumatic event, between the ages of 2-7. the cause is anything from a dog barking in a child's face, to a child seeing some one get shot! this is the spectrum that I have worked with. So when you put someone into hypnosis you go back to the first time they started to stutter. The subconious remembers everything. Then we do forgiveness and let the memory go from the body. Now when you understand how the mind and body work together, you can go back to the memory, and there is no more emotion attached,. that is when the stutter lets go. And becomes the cure. Good luck in the future. If you have any questions please let me know. Thank you for you time.

My granddaughter started studdering. At first it was a normal studder that started about 3 months ago. No ive noticed she closes her eyes and tenses up. Is this normal? She is very fluent, she started speaking at 11 months. She is releaxed most of the time when she speaks.

Thank you so much.

I have a boy of four and a half year.in his four years he is very good in speaking but suddenly he started stutter.he is absolutely fine but he stutter when speak is this normal plz instruct me i m very worried about him.

In reality, people focus on what sound or letter the word starts with only when they want to write it, but never when they say it;-) Each oral word is a whole indivisible melody AUTOMATICALLY played by our speech instrument, which never functions according to single sounds (especially consonants!), but naturally moves in so-called “ringtones” = sound chords. Each chord is a melody of 1 (if it’s a vowel) to 6 sounds that our speech organ produces in its one drop down. Note that these natural ringtone movements of our “speech pipe” has nothing to do with syllables. Single sounds, letters, syllables, phrases, and sentences are the terms relevant for writing, but have nothing to do with oral speech.

My 2 years old speaks a lot like every normal toddler, but he starts repeating words and from past one week he starts having ticks during speech. Specially when he speak words which starts from A,E,I,O and U. Like those sounds come out with a tick. Please suggest what should I do.

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