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4 yr old stuttering 1yr anniversary My son started stuttering almost a year ago now and I have to say that it already seems like a lifetime ago. There is a heavy family history of stuttering - my dad and most of my uncle's on my dad's side. You never want your child to have to face being different but i have to say that i am so blessed that God gave me this opportunity to learn from watching my son. It gets hard at times but I keep seeing his resilence and it amazes me Back in the fall of 2024, he went through a period where his stuttering was almost painful. He could barely get a single word out and he was already a shy boy and I felt like it caused him to turn even more inward. We had him evaluated through the early intervention program, but because it had been less than 6 months they decided not to go ahead with treatment. And boy am I glad about that! They told me to not talk to him about it and to pretend that it wasn't happening. However, I pushed my pediatrician to get me a referral to speech therapy. I was lucky enough to find a wonderful speech therapist who stressed the importance of acceptance and normalizing stuttering. Over the course of the last 6 months, we have learned lots of information of stuttering, my son knows how to recognize it and we have just completely normalized it in our household. He has blossomed! I didn't know he could possibly be so extroverted but genuinely he says hi to every single person on the street. He is so confident and it really like warms my heart that he doesn't see his stutter as something that holds him back. I pray that he never lets it get in his way and that his confidence continues to build. He will be starting school in about a year and I do fear because kids are mean. I know that we are still at the beginning of this journey, but I will continue to strive to create an environment will that foster his confidence when speaking, with or without a stutter.