when she speaks she looks like she knows what she is about to say. But when she opens her mouth to speak it looks like she can't breathe. Is there any trick that can help her speak better?
2007-11-27 02:15:47 · 5 answers · asked by Rosali O. 2 in Family & Relationships ➔ Family
she's 13 years old
2007-11-27 02:21:55 · update #1
Don't hurry her speech development. If she's already 7 now there's a problem.
Added:
Okay now that you have said she's 13...try to make her read novels aloud. Practice will make her utterance rather normal when compared to other kids of her age.
2007-11-27 02:31:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
She should be in speech therapy to help her with this problem. Unknown to a lot of people, James Earl Jones, who is a marvelous speaker had a very bad stutter. He got speech help and now is a spokesperson for so many things. She needs to understand that she is allowed to "think" about what she wants to say, form the sentence in her head and then slowly speak the sentence. Speech therapy will get her over the anxiety she is feeling when she loses what she wants to say. The anxiety is causing the stuttering. She shouldn't be embarrassed to ask for help and her school should have picked up on this issue by now and put her in a speech class. Have her mother bring it up with the school nurse or the special ed department and get the help she needs now.
2007-11-27 03:45:52 · answer #2 · answered by Grandma of 2 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your best source for help with stuttering is The Stuttering Foundation of America. My uncles and cousins who stuttered used their book "Self Therapy for the Stutterer" to overcome their stuttering. It is available at www.stutteringhelp.org in the estore, at Amazon.com, and is online in part. The Stuttering Foundation of America has brochures on their web site with information on how you can help someone who is stuttering. Some blogs that might help are:
http://stutteringhelp-bud.blogspot.com/
http://notesonstuttering.blogspot.com/
http://stutteringselfhelp-stutteringselfhelp.blogspot.com/
She might join this group to meet other stutterers:
http://groups.myspace.com/stutteringfoundation
Some other good books are "Advice to Those Who Stutter" and "A Stutterer's Story" about a stutterer who went on to become a speech therapist.
2007-11-27 07:18:36 · answer #3 · answered by Bud B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everyone communicates in a different way, be it languages, mime, braille, art, poetry, dancing... singing, yodeling, heck i type like a chicken.
My wonderful husband of 16 years has stuttered severely all his life. The worst things you could do for your sister are: finishing her sentences, slapping her on the back, hiding her, making jokes or excuses.
The BEST: love and accept her no matter what...
2007-11-27 02:38:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
How old is she? My nephew used to be terrible with that, but with age it just kind of stopped all of a sudden.
2007-11-27 02:20:21 · answer #5 · answered by Emily 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋