Stutter

[noon_child]

I'm not really worried but just curious.

My DD occasionally stutters when overexcited and trying to get her words out. However, recently she has been playing much more with another child at school who stutters much more frequently and it seems to have increased her stutter to match his. She's not faking or copying deliberately.

Just wondering what's happening here, can you learn a stutter? (they are both due to turn 6 in a few months btw)

 

[caz_hills]

Hi,

My son Is now five and had a stutter when he was about 2.5. We had speech therapy which was brilliant. It taught us a lot about how we speak to him and how we create an environment which is slow, relaxed etc. The NHS provided our speech therapy free of charge with little wait.

Basically it focused on slowing down his speech so he has time to get his words out. We need to do the same so we all speak slower and we demonstrate how he should talk. They call faster talking 'race horse talking' and the desired speaking 'tortoise talking'.

She also taught us the value of not talking over each other and the importance of taking turns to speak. She said stuttering is not 'caught' so I don't think your LO would be mirroring what they hear. But I'm no expert - she said now he had stuttered he will have a risk that it may come back. But since we had these sessions it has stopped completely.

I don't know if that helps? X

 

[Aphrodite]

My yds has a stutter. It got really bad at about 3 so I had him assessed. It was very intermittent and they were not concerned and basically said his brain is working faster than his mouth. Weirdly, he completely stopped doing it after that Appointment. He has started to do it again now he's 4 and started school but I can tell it's.more him rushing to get things out and he can't do it as fast as he wants. I'm confident he will stop doing it eventually.

 

[caz_hills]

My yds has a stutter. It got really bad at about 3 so I had him assessed. It was very intermittent and they were not concerned and basically said his brain is working faster than his mouth. Weirdly, he completely stopped doing it after that Appointment. He has started to do it again now he's 4 and started school but I can tell it's.more him rushing to get things out and he can't do it as fast as he wants. I'm confident he will stop doing it eventually.

The specialist told us the same thing - they brains work faster than they can get the words out. Stutters often happen in children who have a large vocabulary at a young age. Hence they can't get their words out.

 

[EverythingXd]

My DS1 stuttered a lot around 2.5/3 years old, I noticed it coincided with a speech development when he started to use more complicated sounds i.e. spl, str and so on.

It stopped after a few months and has recently started again (around 5.5yo). This time I've noticed his reading has come on a lot of late, so it seems to be related to development with my DS1 (like maybe he's over-thinking things so can't get the words out properly).

He was an early talker, big vocabulary and does talk quite fast. I'm sure it will stop again, and he doesn't seem concerned.

 

[sequeena]

Thomas has a stutter again it's a case of having his brain work faster but he also has an articulation and phonological speech disorder which jumbles him up. My OH has a stutter that he spend a long time in therapy for (his was a result of meningitis at an early age). I think most kids develop a bit of a stutter in the early years. If it is particularly bad I would seek advice x