Stuttering

[Pho3nix]

Speech Therapy. Now while he is young.

 

[MickZA]

Speach therapy would be the safest bet. Some people never out grow it, so rather not take the chance.

My brother stuttered until he was about eight, the school (UK) picked it up and he underwent speech therapy. Certainly hasn't affected his self-confidence

BTW, I thought it was cool to imitate him (we're a year apart) until mum cured my "stuttering" with a clip around the ear

 

[homeboy]

DAF - Delayed Auditory Feedback

You get apps on the PC and I see on phones now.

Does wonders..

Interesting that (maybe some) people don't stutter while they recite something together with someone else.

will try and see

 

[homeboy]

I stuttered until about i was 8, my grandmother helped me, she made me repeat certain sentences the whole time, i also went to a speech therapist but it was mostly my gran which helped me overcome it. Today i don't stutter at all, but it does differ from person to person.

thanks for the tip.

 

[homeboy]

In our office there are a couple of guys with stutters - one very severe. He also happens to be one of the top software architects, and a generally brilliant guy. It hasn't stopped him at all. If you can't get your child to overcome the physical stutter itself, rather focus on overcoming the social effects that it tends to cause. Anyway most devs and engineers I know are barely verbal.

yes he is very good with my on my pc and cellphones if he doesn`t improve i will that will be the direction i will push him into. but then again children of today don`t like being pushed they know what they want.

 

[homeboy]

I might be giving away very personal information, but I have stuttered my entire life. Sometimes extremely severely, sometimes you won't even notice. I have been to speech therapists.

So, some tips. First, do not react to your child's stutter. Your child is probably already aware of his stutter and self conscious. Do not tell him to take a breath, do not tell him to slow down. Do not finish his sentences unless he gives you permission to. In most cases it is a bad idea.

Do not focus attention on his stutter, in other words.

Contact a speech therapist immediately and get him assessed. If he begins therapy soon, he might outgrow it and not stutter as an adult. I did not outgrow it.

Different people deal with stutters in different ways. Myself, it has never really stopped me from interacting. I talk to random strangers, I give presentations, and I make phone calls, even though I really don't like the phone. I have had people laugh at me, had people tease me, had people ask me if I forgot my name. Usually it is just ignorance - people unaware of what a stutter is. I always participated in class, and put my hand up in class to answer questions if I knew the answer.

I don't why I did, or why my stutter does not really affect me socially. I think my stutter is perhaps not as bad as some - sometimes I am pretty fluent, even on the phone. Some people suffer from terrible social anxiety relating to their stutter, and this can really affect them. Be careful to make sure that your son does not develop such anxiety.

thanks for being so brave to tell the forum of your stuttering. Sometimes he is fluent and i can see when he is exited it is very bad. I never corrected him and never focus attention on his stuttering and somehow I think that made him more confident. last year the teacher told us his is withdrawn in class but later on in the year he came out of his shell. He is much better so my next step will be to get him to a therapist.

 

[homeboy]

Ask him to sing what he wants to say to the tune of his favourite song.

yes i saw a youtube video of a boy, that when he listen to music he doesn`t stutter. yes when he sings he doesn`t stutters

 

[ScottulusMaximus]

Stop with your medieval tendencies forcing him to write right handed(the proper way) ))

Speech therapy will definitely help more sooner rather than later

 

[Bobbin]

I might be giving away very personal information, but I have stuttered my entire life. Sometimes extremely severely, sometimes you won't even notice. I have been to speech therapists.

So, some tips. First, do not react to your child's stutter. Your child is probably already aware of his stutter and self conscious. Do not tell him to take a breath, do not tell him to slow down. Do not finish his sentences unless he gives you permission to. In most cases it is a bad idea.

Do not focus attention on his stutter, in other words.

Contact a speech therapist immediately and get him assessed. If he begins therapy soon, he might outgrow it and not stutter as an adult. I did not outgrow it.

Different people deal with stutters in different ways. Myself, it has never really stopped me from interacting. I talk to random strangers, I give presentations, and I make phone calls, even though I really don't like the phone. I have had people laugh at me, had people tease me, had people ask me if I forgot my name. Usually it is just ignorance - people unaware of what a stutter is. I always participated in class, and put my hand up in class to answer questions if I knew the answer.

I don't why I did, or why my stutter does not really affect me socially. I think my stutter is perhaps not as bad as some - sometimes I am pretty fluent, even on the phone. Some people suffer from terrible social anxiety relating to their stutter, and this can really affect them. Be careful to make sure that your son does not develop such anxiety.

This might seem insensitive? Sorry if it does...

But I'm really curious to know what is actually going on. Are you aware, as in fully decisive, of what you want to say but just can't control yourself to say it?

Is it an involuntary reaction, best I can think of is like a twitch?

Do you feel it is mostly in your mind? For instance I've stammered when I've conflicted terms or words and it felt like subconsciously my mind could not give precedence to one.

I can't do public speaking and I find it's because most of my mind's resources is taken up by things other than what I need to talk about compounded by nervousness which is also self perpetuating, get nervous, think about getting nervous, get more nervous. I've sometimes got to prepare what I want to say word for word in the manner I would speak it. Which sucks when meetings go off track. Do you find it is in the presence of strangers that it happens more? Where your thoughts are overloaded with other new stimuli?

 

[Ancalagon]

This might seem insensitive? Sorry if it does...

But I'm really curious to know what is actually going on. Are you aware, as in fully decisive, of what you want to say but just can't control yourself to say it?

Is it an involuntary reaction, best I can think of is like a twitch?

Do you feel it is mostly in your mind? For instance I've stammered when I've conflicted terms or words and it felt like subconsciously my mind could not give precedence to one.

I can't do public speaking and I find it's because most of my mind's resources is taken up by things other than what I need to talk about compounded by nervousness which is also self perpetuating, get nervous, think about getting nervous, get more nervous. I've sometimes got to prepare what I want to say word for word in the manner I would speak it. Which sucks when meetings go off track. Do you find it is in the presence of strangers that it happens more? Where your thoughts are overloaded with other new stimuli?

No its not insensitive, don't worry.

Stuttering is purely a breathing thing. Imagine if your chest tightened up and you couldn't force yourself to breath out in order to speak. Its not that my mind gets tangled - my mind knows exactly what it wants to say. It is getting the body to obey that is the hard part sometimes.

Stutterers also usually know in advance when they are going to block, which means when they freeze up and cannot get any air out. Sometimes you just know, other times you know that you stutter on a certain word or sound. So, this will cause secondary behaviours, such as repetition of parts of sentences or just sounds, in an attempt to overcome the block. Some stutterers try to speak really fast to go over the block, but this doesn't work. Actually if you speak slowly and carefully, you are less likely to block.

So yeah, I'm completely aware of my stutter and know in advance when I will block. I stutter on my name even though that sound is not particularly difficult for me - it is because it is personal. I stutter when I say happy birthday or merry christmas, even though I would not stutter over the words happy or birthday.

Technically there is something wrong with my brain, the way that the hemispheres connect, and the order in which parts of my brain light up when I am speaking. Read the wikipedia article on current theories about it.

EDIT: There are different causes of it, and different categorizations of it. Yours would be the nervousness kind, mine would be hereditary kind. So the above would not apply to you. Stuttering can also be caused by brain injury I believe.

 

[Pho3nix]

This might seem insensitive? Sorry if it does...

But I'm really curious to know what is actually going on. Are you aware, as in fully decisive, of what you want to say but just can't control yourself to say it?

Is it an involuntary reaction, best I can think of is like a twitch?

Do you feel it is mostly in your mind? For instance I've stammered when I've conflicted terms or words and it felt like subconsciously my mind could not give precedence to one.

I can't do public speaking and I find it's because most of my mind's resources is taken up by things other than what I need to talk about compounded by nervousness which is also self perpetuating, get nervous, think about getting nervous, get more nervous. I've sometimes got to prepare what I want to say word for word in the manner I would speak it. Which sucks when meetings go off track. Do you find it is in the presence of strangers that it happens more? Where your thoughts are overloaded with other new stimuli?

For me. I knew what I wanted to say but the getting if out was a problem.
I would get even more frustrated which makes matters worse.

Under control now but still stutter when I speak vernacular . Close friends , family or strangers.. If was always the same.

 

[Bobbin]

No its not insensitive, don't worry.

Stuttering is purely a breathing thing. Imagine if your chest tightened up and you couldn't force yourself to breath out in order to speak. Its not that my mind gets tangled - my mind knows exactly what it wants to say. It is getting the body to obey that is the hard part sometimes.

Stutterers also usually know in advance when they are going to block, which means when they freeze up and cannot get any air out. Sometimes you just know, other times you know that you stutter on a certain word or sound. So, this will cause secondary behaviours, such as repetition of parts of sentences or just sounds, in an attempt to overcome the block. Some stutterers try to speak really fast to go over the block, but this doesn't work. Actually if you speak slowly and carefully, you are less likely to block.

So yeah, I'm completely aware of my stutter and know in advance when I will block. I stutter on my name even though that sound is not particularly difficult for me - it is because it is personal. I stutter when I say happy birthday or merry christmas, even though I would not stutter over the words happy or birthday.

Technically there is something wrong with my brain, the way that the hemispheres connect, and the order in which parts of my brain light up when I am speaking. Read the wikipedia article on current theories about it.

EDIT: There are different causes of it, and different categorizations of it. Yours would be the nervousness kind, mine would be hereditary kind. So the above would not apply to you. Stuttering can also be caused by brain injury I believe.

Thanks.

I can't quite imagine that feeling. If anything I don't even realize the breathing when I talk but would probably be aware of it now

 

[ponder]

At what age did it start?

 

[homeboy]

Since he started to speak now he has develope that jerk with his head to get certain words out. Then sometimes the same words come out fluently

 

[ponder]

Since he started to speak now he has develope that jerk with his head to get certain words out. Then sometimes the same words come out fluently

According to stats those that start really young have the highest possibility to overcome it. Go see a specialist/therapist, should have gone already probably. All the best.

 

[Ancalagon]

Since he started to speak now he has develope that jerk with his head to get certain words out. Then sometimes the same words come out fluently

He is doing that to compensate for the stutter. Probably to break eye contact because he is feeling self conscious.

I used to shut my eyes tight or look away sometimes.

 

[Patty]

Get your child to a speech therapist without delay, and a good one too. Ensure that your child continues therapy for many years or until the issue is sorted. Im an ex-severe stutter and battled with it my whole life. Now my stutter is mild, sure some times I get bad days but its really even then mild. At a young age if a child stutters they can either grow out of it or not, and you do not want to take the risk. A therapist can do a lot in getting the brain to handle speech through different pathways in the brain which is highly effective on a young developing brain. So dont delay speech therapy!

As a parent get involved in your child's speech. Do extensive research and continue the excersizes the therapist does, discuss it with the therapist.

P.S. My wife is a speech therapist and with me being a stutterer trust me on the above.