How to treat stuttering in children

The emergence of language is necessary for us humans to communicate. If humans had no language or spoke with a stutter, it would affect communication between humans and make relationships between people less harmonious. However, there are many reasons for stuttering. Today's society is developing rapidly, and many diseases that were not common before may be very common now. However, we still have medical methods to deal with common diseases.

No parent would want to see their child stuttering. Every parent hopes that their child is healthy, but there are many reasons why children stutter. It may be due to genetic reasons, environmental influences, etc. So for children with stuttering, we can try to treat it with the following methods.

1. Create a relaxed and happy living environment for young children, allow them to speak calmly, and encourage them to interact more with their parents and people around them.

2. Educate your children not to be impatient and do not let them recite difficult poems and articles too early to avoid causing mental stress.

3. Don’t let your child imitate the way people who stutter speak.

4. When a child speaks incoherently or unfluently, do not pay too much attention to it, and do not scold or make fun of him, so as to avoid damaging the child's self-confidence and causing mental stress.

5. Reduce the child's attention to stuttering. When a child stutters, do not rush to correct him/her. Instead, let the child speak boldly to avoid becoming more nervous and causing the stuttering to become more serious.

6. Consciously expand children's vocabulary. When children's vocabulary expands, they have more words to choose from and they don't have to get stuck on a certain word, which causes speech interruptions and stuttering.

7. Parents should try to slow down their speech when talking to their children, because speech speeds often affect each other. If parents speak very quickly, children will involuntarily want to speak faster, but if their ability to express themselves cannot keep up, they will easily develop stuttering.

8. Avoid putting pressure on children and try not to force them to recite nursery rhymes, poems, etc. in front of others.

9. Care for the child in many ways to make him feel safe in family life. Parents should stay away from the child when there is a conflict, because the child cannot understand everything that happens between adults, which often causes fear and timidity, and induces stuttering.