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My 8 year old is stuttering (Reply to this comment)
by bonniesayers
I did a google search to find some books on stuttering and this came up in my search. I believe my son is OCD and trying to get a dx, at first I thought perhaps Tourette's since the eye blinking and stuttering started last Sep at the age of eight. The blinking stopped for many months and recently came back.
Does your child still stutter, what books have you found helpful?
Bonnie
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Jul 04 '03
7:26 pm PDT
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My (very lengthy) perspective... (Reply to this comment)
by jsaunt
You've done a really nice job of explaining dysfluency, and you have a unique perspective as a parent of a child who stutters. As a speech pathologist, I would just like to add a couple of things. (I am the first to admit that my 20 years in my field have been primarily working with adults, but I have background in pediatrics, too.) I want to explain more about the normal dysfluencies that children display that you mention. It is very common for (about) 3 1/2 to 5 year old children to sound as if they are stuttering when they are developing their vocabularies. Yes, this is very different from "real" stuttering, and sometimes using some of the suggestions you provided can help kids get through this stage without any residual effects. Those that are helpful include slowing down when you speak to the child, maintaining eye contact, and not over-reacting to your child. It is also very important to emphasize reading to your child in this stage as it will only stimulate their vocabulary further.
The only other thing I wanted to mention that isn't 100% in agreement with what you said is that in some children regardless of how early speech therapy is initiated, stuttering may continue. Naturally, I advocate speech therapy regardless, because it can minimize stuttering or teach the child or family members ways to deal with it (as you mentioned). But there certainly are some children (and adults) who will be dysfluent regardless of the greatest efforts of themselves and their speech pathologists.
Thanks for putting this information out there, and for being supportive of speech therapy as an aid to dealing with this problem. If anyone has any trouble finding a speech pathologist, I'd advise you to contact your school or our national association, which is the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (http://www.asha.org).
Keep up the great work!
Leslie
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Feb 24 '02
10:30 am PST
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Toria (Reply to this comment)
by Chalathra
My 5 year old, Toria goes through phases of stuttering. She does it for awhile then goes without doing it, then it picks up again... I used to work where there was a speech therapist and she was able to see Toria. She suggested just talking to Toria as though she weren't stuttering, basically ignore it.
I think she just gets to where her mouth is not being able to keep up with her brain. Afterall, she is so smart! ;-)
Thanks for the wonderful and personal review!
Happy Epinioning!
~*~**chalathra**~*~
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Feb 18 '02
1:20 pm PST
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