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Thank you so much for the kind words and the tips. It still ebbs and flows of course but the tools she has now makes such a big difference. And yes, I have to stop doing everything for her in public....

I would never blame my daughter for stuttering. She’s my world! I will provide her all the opportunities SHE wants when it comes to her speech. She hated speech therapy, I mean hated it. I stopped ma...

I understand that feeling.With my child, reading only improved when support happened during reading. ReadabilityTutor helped because feedback was gentle and right away....

My brother has a stutter. He went to a special.summer camp to help.  Most of it is slow down, stretch out the sounds.  Treating your anxiety will benefit. After listening to the state of mental he...

I'm from the UK and my four year old has a stutter. The public systems SLP's treatment at this age is educating parents and teachers. The goal is to give positive speaking experiences and ensure they ...

Looking for resources to help my 4 year old son who stutters

Looking for resources to help my 4 year old son who stutters I’ve been supporting my son, who is now 4 years old, struggle with stuttering since he was 2 years old. We’ve been through the public syste...

My parents always built up my confidence by just listening to me & not making a big deal about it. I’m 28 now still stutter all throughout school I’ve been bullied but I always know when I got home it...

6 year old - words for bravery and self-acceptance

6 year old - words for bravery and self-acceptance I have a wonderful little boy. He is a person who stutters. He is currently in speech therapy with a clinician who specializes in stuttering and has ...

I vote yes because I can be able to provide the support and environment that I didn't receive as a child. I want them to be confident no matter their circumstance....

That sucks, kiddo. I follow this sub as a father to two kids who stutter. How are your private conversations with them? I'm guessing they don't have enough patience to talk with you about how it bot...

regularly let him talk about his interaction with teachers. teachers he love. teachers he hate but respect. teachers who are disrespectful. biggest mistake my parents made was assuming that, every ti...

Hi Weary_Traffic3385, first of all I want to thank you for your hard work as a parent to ensure your kid has his psychological needs met, and also for trusting his instincts and preferences as an indi...

I think ours tries that. And my son swears he understands all that. But he might be struggling to put it into real world practice :(...

Good advice. We definitely try to make a home a stress-free zone! He's a regular chatterbox at home, luckily. I hope that means he feels he can be his true self at least somewhere....

Honestly, flashcards never worked for us. Too dry. What helped more was embedding tricky sounds into songs or rhymes. Kids remember rhythm....

Our speech therapist introduced us to Forbrain. It’s basically a headset that helps kids hear their own voice more clearly. My daughter stopped rushing her words once she started using it....

A lot of apps felt too generic or gamified for our daughter. What helped more was just building a tiny routine like 10 minutes after dinner and sticking to it....

Not all practice needs to be structured. We did “silly story time” where my son would make up a story and I’d pretend to type it up. He loved the attention and didn’t realize he was working on his spe...

We found that using puppets unlocked something. It became less “him” speaking and more of a character, which weirdly helped reduce pressure....

I’ve been trying something called shadowing with my son, who struggles with reading. He reads out loud right after me, almost at the same time, and it helps him follow the words and feel more confiden...