5 Tips to Share With Parents of Preschoolers Who Stutter

As a speech-language pathologist who works with preschool children who stutter, I often hear the same questions from parents: Is there anything I can do to improve my child’s chance of outgrowing stuttering? Although stuttering is not caused by ways parents interact with their child, I can certainly recommend interaction strategies for SLPs to share with parents of their clients or students. Parents can incorporate these supports at the guidance of their SLP once their child starts showing signs of childhood-onset stuttering. These five tips allow parents to support their child in facilitating confident verbal expression: Increase the length of pauses between speaking turns. Children might feel pressure to get their words out before somebody else begins talking. Allowing for slightly longer pauses between conversational turns can decrease this perceived time pressure and may help reduce the demands on the child’s speech system associated with that pressure. How To Clear Four Common Roadblocks to Coverage of Stuttering Treatment Take a look at how the law applies to stuttering discrimination. Children with communication challenges do best when introduced to AAC as early as 12 months. Helping Students and Their Families Accept Stuttering Reduce your own rate of speech. It’s common to hear parents and other adults tell children who stutter to “slow down.” While well-meant, this statement could make children feel even more frustrated because stuttering just isn’t t...
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