commentr/StutterFebruary 24, 2025

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I mostly agree, just something I would add to this is that completely not acknowledging or ignoring her stutter, especially when she gets older and more aware of it is not good either. But you're already searching for a qualified therapist so you're on a good way here, and acknowledge her stuttering. For a lot of children it goes away naturally, but for some it will stay (1-1,5% of adults). Quoting from my all-time favorite stuttering documentary, [My Beautiful Stutter](https://www.say.org/mybeautifulstutter/) (which I highly recommend, especially since it deals with stuttering children): “What pediatricians for years were actually trained to do was to advise parents not to talk about the stuttering, and that if you don't if you don't mention it, it will just go away. When you have a problem, when nobody talks about it, it really makes you feel like it's really shameful. The things that your parents don't talk about are usually the biggest problems. If they have a brother who has a drinking problem, well, we don't talk about uncle Billy's drinking, or we don't talk about somebody's big, major problems.” Also looking away, looking distracted, abruptly breaking natural eye contact (not staring) when she stutters might convey the wrong message to her. See my older comments about this ([here](https://www.reddit.com/r/Stutter/comments/1gfre60/comment/lukxka6/), and [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/Stutter/comments/1dn1rqe/comment/la1gyxx/)). As a stutterer you’ll notice these sudden changes in your conversation partner.  As u/Taupe-Taurus-26 wrote, just let her speak and listen to her with love and reassurance, as you would with anybody else.

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