Steve Hill
Some parents have the shock of hearing their young child start
stammering as a toddler. I am somebody who runs a speech centre
in Birmingham, England, I now help people to achieve fluency.
I met a lady who was thirty and her little boy aged four had
been stammering for quite a while. She had taken him to speech
therapy and was extremely anxious as to why he was stammering.
It had possibly started because the toddlers father had quite a
severe stammer, the boy may of picked up the bad habits this way.
Many other people contact me asking why their toddler has
developed a stammer and asking what forms of stammering
treatments are available.
I always suggest that they keep as patient as they can and try
to play games, speech games with their child. They can challenge
the child to say the word fluently, they show their child how it
should be said and then bet them that they can't do it
themselves. When they do manage to say that particular word
fluently they then heap lots of praise onto the child, telling
them how clever they are and how proud mommy and daddy are of
them. I even advise giving them an award like a small chocolate
bar.
If instead of being patient parents or relatives are aggressive,
saying things like: "Get your words boy" "Spit it out!" These
types of comments can have a very negative effect and make that
child withdraw into their shell. This may to some people seem
very obvious to say, however you would not believe the amount of
people who have told me this is what they were told as an infant.
About the author:
Stephen Hill has a number of websites including:
stammering
toddler
epilepsy therapy
reiki information
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