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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 qui...

have passed on Stutter

have passed on Stutter Hi All, I've passed on stuttering to my son (3yr old). About 4 days ago he repeated a word in a sentence 3 times in a row ("I like like like that book"), to which we thought th...

6 years old is a normal age for developmental stuttering. Psychogenic stuttering does exist, but it is quite rare. Many parents attribute their children's stuttering to some *event*, but to be blunt t...

Help for a Study

Help for a Study Hey! So, I'm a college student at St. John Fisher College. I'm currently doing a research project on stuttering and how it effects people (mainly children) in day to day activities an...

It truly is. I was bullied as a child as I had quite a severe lisp. I don't want my son going through that and I would do anything that will help him! ...

You are obviously a great Mom! Looking out for other kids etc. I don't know the answer, but educating your kids and telling them to stick up for other kids is right on! No one stuck up for me except ...

It's not my son's siblings it's the boys in his class siblings. Just read my op and wasn't clear-sorry I know I can't control what people in his class say but I want to be able to help him deal with...

You can't really control what people in his class say but you really need to get onto the siblings. At home he shouldn't have to deal with that. I actually experienced the same thing being teased by s...

Sadly for us stutterers, the only solution to that is to get used to it and not let it bother him. Luckily though, people his age have a great chance of growing out of it! Also, you might not be able...

Thank you!! We try not to focus on it, apart from when we are going through the exercises his speech therapist has given us and of course we have explained that it is nothing for him to be ashamed of....

Being laughed at because of stammer

Being laughed at because of stammer My 5 nearly 6 year old son has a stammer. Today he was laughed and teased by a boy in his class and his 2 older siblings because of it. My son is, understandably up...

Hello /u/ftus I'm 34 and I have no memory of ever speaking fluently prior to extensive therapy, I still stutter but I have more control over it. Where do you live? Can your school provide any speech t...

My 7 year old begins speech therapy next week.

My 7 year old begins speech therapy next week. I stuttered pretty badly growing up, I never got help for it, but it sort of fizzled out when I was in my early 20s. I still do it a bit, but not nearly...

I'm in a bit of a tricky situation here my daughter is actually seeing a speech therapist at the moment and I've got to devote all my energy towards her as she is only young but once I get her speech ...

My stuttering has gone worse.

My stuttering has gone worse. It wasn't that bad just 5 months ago. I'd only struggle with some letters like w, a, b, m. After I start the sentence I'm gonna say, it's all good from there and I'd carr...

My biological dad's side is fine but my grandfather from my mother's side had a severe stutterer. My cousin, also from my mother's side, has a severe stutter but it's improved since I last saw her. ...

I'm the first in our family. My elder son started stuttering at age 3 and now at 7 still stutters. Younger son, now 6, doesn't stutter. I'm really hoping it'll vanish at some point. For me, it got a l...

Hello. My Mum stutters. I'm the oldest of four siblings, we all stuttered but my siblings grew out of it at 7 or so, I was the only one who it stuck with. My son is 3 and a half and he started stutter...

Advice for my daughter

Advice for my daughter Hi! My 8 year old daughter developed a stutter earlier this year. Her main issue seems to be blocking and her stutter has been defined as moderate. It just kind of came out of ...

I didn't start stuttering until I was around 6/7 years old, which coincidentally was the time I started going to speech classes for a different impediment of not being able to properly sound certain l...