Therapy For Young Children Who Have A Stammer



Posted: Friday, November 14, 2008

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Stuttering therapy

What types of therapy are available to parents of young children who have a stammer? To hear your child stammer can be truly heartbreaking and extremely worrying. Parents often start to question as to how or why the child has started to stammer and will be eager to find a solution.

It can be very difficult to teach a young person any form of speech therapy technique. Techniques which would be extremely beneficial to teenagers and adults can be quite hard to understand for someone so young. This only adds to the frustration of the parent who can certainly see how and why the treatment could work but do not want to wait until their sibling is of an age to understand.

This is where patience comes in, not so much in having to wait a number of years until the child will be able to comprehend the stuttering therapy techniques, but more in the way of the parent being patient in the child's ability to change their stammering habits. This is what a stammer soon starts to become, a habit. It actually becomes one of the hardest habits to break and one that many adults never actually succeed in breaking, therefore a child requires plenty of time to take in and absorb the information.

I personally feel that it is the parent who should be teaching the fluency techniques to their child and that any speech coach should actually be coaching the parents who then pass on the stuttering therapies to their child.

These stuttering treatments should be tailored directly to suit the age of the child therefore for the very young children who stammer they could well be in the form of a game.

The speech coach, stuttering speciaist or speech therapist should be happy to provide a continued support service as this is essential in ensuring that the child has the best possible chance of overcoming their stammer.
Steve Hill is a speech coach from the UK; he has a number of websites including:
 
http://www.stammering-stuttering.co.uk
 
http://www.stutter-cure.com
 
http://www.stutter-stuttering.com
 
 
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