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No advice, but it sounds like you care and respect your child, and that’s gonna go a long way whether he keeps stuttering or not. I wish my parents had cared as much as you do—the worst thing for me w...

He probably won't grow out of it. Get him to speech therapy and show him love. Best thing you can do. Wish my parents did that when I was stuttering as a kid...

You can always put your child in technical speech therapy—I haven’t found one that seems to truly work outside of HCRI (has closed its doors). If I had to go back and tell my parents how to handle wh...

Thank you so much!! We are working hard to make sure he knows he can take as long as is necessary to say whatever he needs to say. The biggest challenge is getting my older kids to give him have time ...

You sounds like a great mom! I am 31f, stuttering my while life but have worked on my speech and improved significantly over the years, to the point where some people in my life don't even know I have...

We have a lot of these threads from parents with a lot of good advice that I encourage parents to look through. Stuttering can be both ok and frustrating at the same time. He should know it's ok to fe...

contact university of austin stuttering center and the friends organization. the best thing for you to do right now is to not make it a big deal and allow him to stutter and speak. if you start to iso...

You’re already ahead of the game by getting him k to therapy early. My son started at 3 as well and it came out of nowhere and really took us by surprise. One of the things that I’ve been trying to ...

Mom to preschooler with a stutter…

Mom to preschooler with a stutter… I’m looking for advice. My preschooler (dare I say toddler?? He’s only 3) has developed a stutter… it appears to be one that will be sticking around. He has several ...

Never make him embarassed to speak and also let him be a kid, yelling and running round the house should be encouraged....

This is my biggest fear, i can deal with this shit but I dont want anyone else to. Fortunately for the ones we maybe pass it down to, we know the ins and outs of it. So the best you can do is get him ...

My dad is a stutterer also and it passed down to me. I imagine it’s heartbreaking as a father to see this but as the son of a stutterer my dad did help give me great advice which really helped. I’m su...

She's actually very musically inclined! She just got a little guitar and keyboard for Christmas that she has been playing with and she'll sing little songs she makes up. I have noticed that when she s...

Get her to start singing, nursery rhymes, carols, get her a musical instrument to sing to. Never try to stop her or look down on her stuttering....

Suggestions to help nephew

Suggestions to help nephew My 7 year old nephew recently started stuttering. He is getting speech therapy through school and was working with a speech therapist virtually. The private therapist was to...

The each session with the Therapist was about 1 hour long, and during the session the therapist would engage through conversation while they played board games, or did other hands on activities. When...

I thought the same! I got married and have a 10 year old who doesn't stutter. Before then, I thought about it just like you. If your kid does stutter you can apply everything you know and help the kid...

Having a stutter doesn't mean it's hell. Since you have experience with a stutter , you can effectively help your child...

It's easier to educate a kid with stutter if their family already encountered this prob. Weakness can be counter attacked from very age of 3 or 4 and then the kid gets complete confidence to face the ...

Thank you! I met a lady whose kid had started to when he was about the same age. That was the advice the speech and language therapist gave her and it didn’t end up developing further, he did just gro...