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Stuttering usually begins at 3 or 4 when children begin using sentences. The added cognitive demands to formulate sentences, coordinate longer strings of sounds when articulating seem to have somethi...

2 days my son starting stuttering out of the blue. It this how stuttering happens?

2 days my son starting stuttering out of the blue. It this how stuttering happens? When it started heooked at me kinda scared and said - Daddy, I can't talk. I feel really bad because I don't know how...

I don’t stutter but have a daughter who does. She is 6. I’m trying my best to encourage her to be confident. Does anyone have any tips I can use to help her? We’ve also been told it’s ‘rare’ for it to...

Hi! I'll just paste what I answered another parent a while back :) Our son started to stutter when he was 2.5 years old. We felt the choice of program (Lidcombe etc..) was very important, and befo...

Looking for advice

Looking for advice Hi there, My son who was born in 2020 (4) developed a stutter at age 3. He was a late talker and was mostly non verbal until he was 2. Obviously covid (masks etc.) contributed to ...

There is certainly variability within the stuttering community in what stuttering sounds and feels like as well as its trajectory across the lifespan - so I'm not at all criticizing you for sharing yo...

As a stutterer and mother of two adult sons, my greatest fear was that they would stutter. They do not, but the oldest son has severe asthma and the youngest son is a Type1 diabetic since age 8. Both...

Daughter starting to stutter

Daughter starting to stutter Hey all, One of my fears, my daughter, 3.5 years old, has started to stutter pretty severely. I’ve had a mild to moderate stutter that’s come and gone my entire 29 years,...

Sudden onset, even sudden severe onset, is not uncommon during the 2-5yo developmental period. Interestingly, a more sudden, severe onset is correlated with higher likelihood of spontaneous recovery (...

That’s good to know! My son also went through a phase with echolalia which I know is associated with autism. He’s a super black and white thinker, very rigid at times, no understanding of nuance and a...

Most young kids go through a stuttering phase. 99% of them grow out of it relatively soon. My 3 year old son has autism and repeats a word over and over sometimes. But difference is he’s just repeat...

Sudden extreme stuttering at 5 yo

Sudden extreme stuttering at 5 yo Just wanted to tap into this community in case someone could relate- recently my 5 yo began sporadic episodes of severe stuttering - such as saying the word “what” ov...

Did any of you experience this?

Did any of you experience this? My 8 year old daughter stutters, and last summer I noticed it decreasing but then it immediately increased once she was back in school, which was miserable for her for ...

My husband stutters and so did his paternal grandma. Our son was stuttering but has been in speech therapy for a few years and it seems pretty much resolved. Interestingly, we recently found an old ...

I am the only person in my entire family - including cousins, aunts, uncles - that stutters. I went to the NiH many many years ago to participate in a study on stuttering and they were flabbergasted ...

My dad stuttered when he was a kid. He claims that my grandfather also did. They both stopped when they were still kids.. lucky them I guess lol...

My Dad gad a severe stutter and mine started around 6 yrs old. My kids don't stutter....

Mine is. My daughter had it for a bit but recovered pretty quickly after I demanded nobody pay any attention to it....

My brother stuttered as a child, but "grew out of it". I do not stutter and no one else in my family does. No one on her father's side does, but my daughter stutters. She didn't begin stuttering unti...

My mam stutters, and I stutter. I have two children (aged 8 and 6), they both don't stutter. The elder kid had a few months when they were about 4 when it seemed as though they might be starting to st...