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Resources For Children Who Stutter

Resources For Stuttering In the first blog on stuttering we discussed facts about children who stutter as well as some types of disfluencies, another word for stuttering.  On the next blog on stuttering we came up with some helpful ways for you to help your kiddo. Now we’re going to point out some resources you can use time and again to assist your kiddo who stutters. The Stuttering Foundation The Stuttering Foundation or to abbreviate, TSF, is a website rich with resources for parents.  Whether you just got the evaluation or you’ve known for years, The Stuttering Foundation can help you.  There are resources for the parents as well as the kiddo who stutters. TSF reaches out to people who stutter from children to adult age.  Today we’ll look at their different resources, specifically ebooks, videos and podcasts. Last but not least there are resources for sale and resources that may be found in your … Keep Reading…

What Do I Do If My Child Stutters?

Help For Stuttering Over the past year you waited for your four year old to stop stuttering.  Now that he’s almost five you’re forced to consider that he mostly likely won’t grow out of it.  He stutters much more often now and you can see that he’s getting more frustrated when he does it.  What should you do next? Early Intervention Is Best Even though a whopping 80% of the 5% of all kids who stutter will eventually grow out of it, that still leaves quite a few kids who will continue to deal with stuttering as they get older.  As with other speech and language disorders, it’s better to have the problem of seeking early intervention and not need it than the reverse. The longer speech and language problems go untreated, the more those problems can grow and develop over time. Criteria for Treatment There isn’t a one size fits all approach when it … Keep Reading…

When Stuttering Becomes A Concern

Noticing The Stuttering Your kiddo is entering the fabled “terrible twos,” and you don’t really understand where the term comes from. At least, you don’t think it applies to your kiddo.  For the most part she is a joy to behold, so good and calm and easy. And boy does she love to talk! It seems like every day she’s learning a new word and she is talking up a storm.   The only time she loses her cool is when she talks and she keeps saying the same syllable before she can get the word out, or she says the same words more than once.  Or even worse, she almost goes blue in the face before she can get the word out. That’s when she gets mad and she throws one of her very few tantrums. Now that you’re actually paying attention, the stumbling over a word or repeating a word seems to happen … Keep Reading…