child stuttering?

Question

my 7 yr old has had a problem with stuttering for quite some time now...is there anything that i could do to help him stop this?

Answer 1

In some cases, speech therapy is enough. There was a study done, I believe it was in the late 1990s, that showed school-aged children responded better to computer based therapies than to human pathologists. I'm not sure if you can get these anti-stuttering programs for home use, but I certainly would give it a try if I were you. Your child's doctor may know how to obtain this type of software.

In many cases, stuttering is a dysfunction of the neurological system in which the feeling of the muscles during speech does not match the sound heard by the person speaking. In other words, it is more a hearing problem than a speaking problem. I believe they are still in the testing phase, but there are anti-stuttering devices that look something like a hearing aid that adjust how the speaker hears his or her own voice. It would probably be best for a specialist to determine if this type of device would work for your son's problem.

The wikipedia article on stuttering appears to be pretty accurate and is well documented. You might also use your favorite search engine to look up keywords like "Delayed auditory feedback", "Frequency-shifted auditory feedback", "Masking auditory feedback" to learn more on your own.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuttering

Answer 2

My daughter does not. My nephew does. He grew to become right into a 28-week preemie at delivery and the only important impression of this is that he's been particularly speech not on time. Now, at purely approximately 4, he's an incredible talker yet from time to time stutters. He sees a speech therapist. My daughter's assistant instructor at daycare stutters slightly. I would desire to confess it crossed my strategies no rely if it grew to become into good/undesirable/irrelevant that a 2-3 hundred and sixty 5 days-previous who continues to be studying speech has a instructor who stutters. So in that way I style of judged her, yet i want my daughter to love people unconditionally and to know it quite is advantageous for persons to be distinctive so then I felt undesirable for even questioning approximately it. i do no longer choose people's intelligence as a results of fact of them stuttering, however.

Answer 3

My niece (who's 9 years old) stutters and my sister didn't waste anytime getting her help. Sometimes they offer stuttering counseling in school. That's where she's getting help. You could always go to a speech therapist, but they can be pricey.
The sooner you get him help, the better. Good luck to you both.

Answer 4

my little girl had the same problem when she was younger. you may want to try calling a college or university in your area. The university here in my area offers speech therapy for no charge. The students who are majoring in this would work with your child for their credits. They done a wonderful job with my little girl and she absolutely loved her student therapist. the students are under the guidance of their professor so its not like they are doing it alone. also here, i know the hospital offers speech therapy classes for children with problems. there is a fee at the hospital but its not as much as taking them to a therapist.
good luck-

Answer 5

The best source of information our family found to help with stuttering is www.stutteringhelp.org as several of my family used to stutter. You can find loads of information for all ages, videos, books, referrals to specialists and more.

Answer 6

When he starts to talk tell him to slow down and to think about what he wants to say. Kids go through these phases where their minds are working faster than their mouths can keep up. Slowing down and thinking about what he wants to say will help.

Answer 7

get him a speech therapist. sometimes they provide them at elementary schools so you should check with his school to see if they have one.