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I think it’s difficult to say, however: My speech therapist once told me that when parents come to them with a stuttering child they usally recommend not doing anything about it (unless it makes thing...

Looking for some help

Looking for some help Hi all! I'm looking for some information and thought this community may be able to help. My step son is 10 years old, and often gets stuck on vowel sounds in the middle or end o...

According to a speech therapist: >We usually wait a year after the onset of stuttering, before starting speech therapy. And when we start speech therapy we don't teach the child speech techniques ...

My son has a stutter. He mostly stutters the first few words and sometimes can’t get a sentence together at all. His IQ is top 2% nationally, he’s 9 and extremely into science/physics. His stutter som...

> But I firmly believe that we only stutter because we are afraid of certain words and spontaneity of speech I dont think we start out like this in the very beginning, but I think it manifests int...

>Even though stuttering is a genetic In my opinion as I understand it there is no stutter predisposition since humans are not biologically born with the ability to speak. I'd much rather like to t...

Welcome to the club bro🤩, I havent met anyone in my age with same struggle in schools :( It has to be you are the only one in class...

I hear ya, I worried a bit about this, too. I have a two year old son and another son due in May. As other folks have said, you can't let this define you. My wife said that I would be the best coach/a...

I don't have any tips. It was strange for us but our son stoped stutter at the last day before holidays from kindergarden. We went to the speech therapist with the child who doesn't stutter ;) Now ...

My Son, also six, so also recently developed a stammer that has worsened quite drastically over the last fortnight. We've referred him for a speech therapist. Would love to hear how your six year old ...

why this obsession with denying that stuttering is objectively something undesirable and something to be concerned about your child. It would be like saying that it is bad parenting to worry about a p...

My husband stutters and last year, when our son was in kindergarten, he started stuttering pretty severely. Having really big blocks and face tightening. Almost identical to my husbands stutter. My p...

Take her to a speech therapist for an evaluation on stuttering. There are risk factors because you have a stutter so she will be less likely to outgrow it. You won’t regret fixing the stutter now, but...

Worst nightmare

Worst nightmare My absolute worst nightmare has happened. My 3 year old has began stuttering. I’m heartbroken. I’ve had a stutter my whole life but it has improved as an adult. It’s nowhere near gone,...

Hi, I stutter and have a daughter who used to stutter when she was young and grew out of it by her teenage years without help. Speech therapy didn't work for me as I went to public school speech thera...

Hi, This is a familiar story for many of us. The problem is that doctors and teachers doesn't know anything about stuttering, even many speech language pathologists know little about stuttering. The...

Mom of Stutterer

Mom of Stutterer I hope it’s okay for me to post here, I’m just looking for a little insight. My daughter started stuttering when she was around 3 and since then, multiple teachers and doctors have to...

Playing the devil's advocate here (though I hope I'm not downplaying your stutter now), I read that children stuttering is common when they're aged 2 to 5 and most children grow out of them (unlike us...

My parents took me in to the doctor immediately when I began stuttering at age 4/5 because they were concerned. He just shrugged it off and didn’t ask any questions. Nothing about how I feel about it,...

I found this post as my child the same age as yours just started stuttering very suddenly. I appreciate all of the advice you gave and received on this post, it’s also reassuring to not feel alone. Be...