Daughter has developed a very bad stutter?????

Question

hi my daughter is due to start infant school in september but has recently developed a really bad stutter which my 8 year old thinks is really funny and takes the michael!! i dont know if it is starting school that is worrying her as it has only been the last 3-4 weeks. i have asked her if it is school and she said no. i want to get this sorted out before september as i know the other kids will tease her about this and she will not want to got to school. please any help would be appreciated.........

Answer 1

Are you sure no one doing anything to her when you aren't around ? Is your 8 year old pushing, hitting, pushing or scaring the s**t out of her ?

Answer 2

Maybe it is the thought of skool that is scaring her, did she go to preskool?? two of my friends have kids who stutter and they deal with it very differently, both have been to see speech therapists, one was told when her son stutter to acknowlede the stutter and get the child to tell it to go away, this does work for him, unless he is very upset about somethin, the other mother was just told to ignore it, as it was a fright of acar crash that caused him to start to stutter first, its hard to no what to do but if ur 8 yr old it takin the micky  he will prob make her more concious of it.. maybe ask your doc if ur worried, but it is prob only a phase

Answer 3

Aww bless her, my daugher has a speech problem, nasel problem and is particially deaf in 1 ear. At first i thought it was just baby talk, but she never grew out of it. Has your daughter always been this way? Or has it just come on? Maybe she is nervous or scared of something? Im guessing your daughter is 4yrs, same has mine she goes infant school this time too. She goes in for 3 operations in june so hopefully she will be better before starting school. Try getting in touch with your health visitor/doctor they may refer her to a specialist to find out the problem, they diagnosed my lil girl right away. Good luck, be patient with her and she will be fine.

And your 8yr old should know better at that age than to laugh at people.

Answer 4

Too much pressure WILL cause stuttering in a child.  

My little boy was getting pressured when toilet training,and he began to stutter badly.  Lucky for us, I remembered learning about stuttering because of too much pressure.  I backed off on putting any pressure on him.  I praised him when he used the potty.  When he messed his pants, I talked pleasantly with him as I cleaned him up.  Within a week, he quit stuttering, within 2, he trained himself.

Take that 8 yr old aside, and make it very, very clear that any teasing of the little one is NOT to be tolerated, in any way, whatsoever.  Do NOT let an 8 yr old torment the little one!!!

The other thing you can do is treat the infant school as a fun adventure.  Sneak in little things, such as it's only for a little while every day, and how much fun there will be.  Can you visit the school and check out the play equipment it may have?  Assure her that you are always only a phone call away, and available if she needs you.  Point out, too, that she is growing up.  School is a Big Girl activity.

Answer 5

First tell the 8 year old to knock it off, it's not nice to tease.  (I know, my sister did it to me...)  Next try to have her evaluated by a speech therapist either through the school district or your pediatrician.  Your other option, if the stuttering is stress related, is to have your pediatrician refer to a counselor/therapist with experience with children.  My daughter had a really bad time with stress-related temper tantrums last year.  5 visits with a therapist who gave her appropriate tools to deal with the stress really helped!

Answer 6

talk to your daughter on her own when travelling or doing something, like driving in the car or swimming and see if she is stammering then. If she is then I guess you will need to help her literacy, this is easy.

Try and get her to speak the words but see if she can sing them in her head, the stammer should go eventually, I had one for years but it was my aunt that made me sing my words and now very very rarely do I stutter and when i do its usually full words

Answer 7

Your best source of help for stuttering, especially with a young child is The Stuttering Foundation of America.  Check out www.stutteringhelp.org and you will find tips for parents of ways they can help, if and when your child needs to see a speech therapist who specializes in treating stuttering, a list of referrals to specialists all over the world, online videos, helpful books you can find at your library or in the estore, etc.  They are a nonprofit group started by a man who stuttered.

Answer 8

First of all, speak to your 8-year-old, because making fun of her isn't going to help her.

A speech therapist may be able to help her, and will probably know the most likely reason for her stutter.

Answer 9

Most of the one-half million adults in the U.S. who stutter report that their stuttering began in early childhood (Bloodstein, 1981). Paradoxically, when parents express concern that their toddlers are beginning to stutter, they are usually told to ignore the problem. This advice is given because disfluency (interruptions in the smooth, easy flow of speech) is a “normal” phase of speech and language development. Indeed, many children experience problems with speaking fluently (smoothly and easily) between the ages of 2 and 5. Most of these children do resolve the problem without any special help. For them, it seems that the rapid growth of speech and language skills temporarily “overloads” their linguistic systems. As they mature, these children’s systems adjust to the motoric and cognitive demands placed upon them. Fluency then returns. For other children, however, early disfluency is the first phase of a problem that follows them into adulthood.

My nephew developed this problem. When he was four he would really stutter when he was trying to tell you something. It did resolve on its own. My son, who is five, does this a little bit too.

Answer 10

I would talk to her doctor to rule out medical and speech reasons. Then ask where to go from there.

Answer 11

check www.stutteringhelp.org and look at their information for parents of preschoolers