Why do people start stammering?
Posted: Wednesday, August 24, 2005
by Steve Hill
Stuttering therapy
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There are many reasons why a person may develop a stammer, and I am going to explain a few of them in this article. We learn to talk by observing the people around us. This happens from birth and when our vocal chords are fully formed we start to speak. If a member of our close family has a stammering problem, there is a good chance that we could pick up their bad habits and also start to stammer. I have met many people who stammer, who inform me that somebody in their family also suffers with stammering and for some reason it is normally their father. How a parent reacts when their child first starts to stammer is very important. If they are calm and patient and do not over-react, there is a good chance the child won't panic and worry. If the parent reacts shocked and responds sharply, with words to the effect of, get your words out boy, this can have a very damaging effect. The child is likely to panic and is more than likely to stammer again out of nerves and tension. The third reason people start to stammer is a response to a shock reaction. I have in the past number of years come into contact with people who have started stammering after a serious car crash, after being mugged and even after giving birth. The fourth reason is copying someone else who has a stammer. I have heard in a number of cases where children have started to stammer after copying a friend at school. This friend had a stammer, and they copied them as if it was some kind of game. In one story I heard, a fluent man joined the navy, accompanying him on the ship was a man who had a stammer. During one trip overseas, the fluent person constantly mocked and mimicked the stammerer, and to his horror, by the end of the trip could not stop stammering himself. He eventually ended up killing himself, so the story goes. Stephen Hill is somebody who has overcome a stutter. He now helps other people to achieve fluency and has a couple of websites at: http://www.stutter-stuttering.com http://www.stuttering-help.co.uk http://www.stammering-stuttering.co.uk | ||
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Top-level comments on this article: (6 total)Thanks you really helped me to understand why my friend stammers. Keep up the good work.
i stammer only when i talk on phone or to elders can u help me out with this problem
i have stammering from 5 std, nw im doing B.E 3year. sometimes i hav more stammering.. sometimes less...
I'm only 15 years old, I started stammering 2 years ago... I never have problems stuttering, stammering is different. I'm always made fun of, it's something I can't help, even when I think before I speak. Does anyone know if it'll go away over time? It's very embarrassing, it happens all the time.
i m 21 i used to stammer in my school days .after i thought its gone but suddenly .i have stammering again .i did not copy anyone nor anyone in my family stammers.its embarrassing sometimes i stammer while talking on phone or while to talking to elders or to my friends or to any girl{who are strangers}.mostly while speaking words beginning with b or i or e.please help and will it would become a habit.
Heyya Mate
I think i had started stammering since i was 4, My way of speaking had put limitations on my social life.
The way of my stammering is bit confusing, coz the way i speak is (ssssssspeak) or sometimes i totally get stuck, (While in class teacher is taking attendance, when my turn is about to come i totally get blank).
I somehow to reduce stammer, i speak something while my friends hardly understands :'( and they make fun of me, so i've decide not to speak anything stupid or utter a word, unless it required.
Is my way of speaking is stammering..?? coz i one of my friend stammers too, but i can understand his each and single word.
Like any other teenager even i like to see my crushes, tell them my feelings. But i can't , and i mingle very less with gals . So i prefer txting and fb chat rather than, speaking in phone, i luv to stay home can't go hang out or shopping mall , movies, U know when phone rings at my home, i'm afraid to keep up the phone coz i know i'll fuc.king stammer. :'(
M dammmmmm depressed often get suicidal feelings, i don't thing i should exist here. coz ppl don't accept me..!!
Its always on d movies, or in the internet they only try to feel us a fake happiness..!!
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