How to correct stuttering in children?

Children are very curious, so when they see others stuttering, they will imitate them, which will cause them to stutter too. Some children are tongue-tied and cannot speak fluently. If others laugh at them, they will often stutter due to nervousness, inferiority complex and other reasons. If this situation is not corrected in time, it will affect the child's life and cause the child to have a lifelong psychological burden. So, how should it be corrected?

1. Psychotherapy

Parents should create a pleasant and stable environment for children who stutter, eliminate their mental burden, and thus alleviate the children's stuttering symptoms; guide children to slow down and lower their volume when speaking, and speak calmly, and guide children to build self-confidence in overcoming stuttering.

2. Language correction training

To help children with language correction training, the following methods can be adopted:

1) Ask your child to speak slower, which can reduce the occurrence of stuttering and make it easier for others to hear. When your child no longer stutters, slowly increase his or her speaking speed.

2) Ask your child to lower his voice when speaking, because speaking softly can effectively prevent stuttering.

3) For the first word of each sentence, encourage the child to pronounce it slowly and softly, and then slide gently to the second word. This is critical because most children who stutter have difficulty pronouncing the first word of a phrase. If the pronunciation is too quick or too heavy, stuttering is bound to occur.

4) Talk more and practice more. In daily life, take every opportunity to talk and practice with your child who stutters. Don't interrupt or give up halfway. You can let your child sing, recite nursery rhymes, tell stories or retell personal happy things to practice his or her speech coherence and help correct stuttering. You can also correct a child's stuttering by changing the language. For example, if a child originally speaks Shanghainese, you can ask him to speak Mandarin, change his language habits, and force him to use his brain and think before speaking.

When a child stutters, the parents' patience and care are the most critical aspects of correcting the child. At this time, if parents can comfort and encourage their children, so that they have the confidence and determination to correct their stuttering, it will be easier for them to correct their stuttering. Then ask the child to slow down his speech, change his language habits, etc., and this will correct the child's stuttering.