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Hey, so roughly 5% of children stutter and most of them outgrow it. It's not completely abnormal for him to be tripped up when he's learning how to talk. That said, I don't have kids and I'm not quite sure what the next best action is. I want to say try speech therapy, but there's a risk that that would put the stutter at the forefront of his thoughts. Stuttering is kind of a positive feedback loop, where once you start to expect to stutter, that makes the stutter worse. Perhaps someone with experience raising kids can provide a better answer. You say you have a couple of months until therapy, so I would keep monitoring him to see if it gets worse. If it keeps up then therapy is probably the best course of action. My sincere advice, don't point it out to him, don't try to hurry him up, don't finish his sentences for him. Just wait patiently, listen to what he has to say, and respond accordingly. Make sure he knows it's OK if it takes him a little longer to get his point across. Otherwise anxiety can set in when he realizes he's "different," and that just makes everything worse. But as of right now, I'd just keep an eye on it. There's a decent chance it can fix itself.