"Have you noticed that your son has been stuttering a bit lately?"
"I also found that my son always stumbled when he spoke, and there were a few words that he always repeated several times before he could continue."
"I thought about the child and was not scared, usually eating and wearing are quite normal, this is almost 3 years old, actually infected with this problem!"
Some time ago, my brother told me that the two of them found that the child suddenly stuttered, and there was no reason why. Remembering that I worked in the language correction industry, they came to ask me about it. I inquired about the children one by one and found that my nephew had no physical problems, no stutterers in the living environment, and was not usually frightened. What's going on?
A child stuttering may be that the mouth cannot keep up with the brain
Infants and young children develop language for up to four years, during which it is normal to have some language expression problems. Generally speaking, the vocabulary of 3-year-old children will not exceed 500, although the child's language ability is still improving, but the thoughts and feelings that the child wants to express are not clearly expressed by these hundreds of words.
Children before the age of 3 are still in the early stages of fluent expression, but the brain weight has developed to more than 50% of that of adults. With the rapid development of cognitive ability, relatively backward language expression shows a relatively sluggish trend. Even if the child has a stomach, he will not be able to speak because of the lack of language reserves, and temporary stuttering and slurred speech will arise.
Although we often discuss developmental factors such as intelligence, language, and physique together, the development of these people is also prioritized. Physique is the fastest growing, followed by intelligence, and the slowest is language. We often see cases of 3-year-old boys who are more than a meter tall but have very poor language skills.
However, there is no need for parents to worry, in most cases, the problem will slowly disappear with the gradual maturity of language ability, and only a small number of children's problems will be transformed into real language barriers. "It is worth noting the time factor, 6 months is the most widely used time in the judgment of the language barrier. But where a language problem depends on the child for more than half a year, it can basically be concluded that it is a language barrier. Teacher Li of Xiamen Center said.
Stuttering as soon as you're nervous, is this a stutter in a language barrier?
As we just said, young children stuttering may be due to the rapid development of cognitive ability, resulting in the mouth can not keep up with the brain situation. However, some children are not like this, although they sometimes stutter when they talk in normal times, and do not delay normal communication, but when they feel nervous and shy, the symptoms of stuttering will suddenly worsen, and sometimes it is difficult to even open their mouths. Does this count as stuttering in the language barrier?
For children who have not yet entered primary school for systematic education, self-awareness is not yet perfect. In the eyes of many adults, behaviors such as "going out of the country", "humiliating", and "comparing" do not affect the way children behave. In other words, the reason why children know the meaning of certain behaviors in society is the result of continuous indoctrination by parents.
However, the naturally active child's awareness of his own existence is not complete, and there will be more basic psychological activities such as shyness, fear, and nervousness, and other higher feelings have not yet appeared. Low-level psychological sensations generally do not cause the child to stutter for a long time, and stuttering will disappear with changes in specific social scenes.
Many articles on the Internet have been emphasizing the effects of psychological changes on young children's stuttering, which seems to us to be completely unnecessary. Self-awareness has not yet fully developed, children are not easily swayed by psychological emotions, and the real culprit that leads to stuttering still depends on physiological reasons.
In the face of children's false stuttering, what should parents do?
Since the rapid development of cognitive ability and nervous shyness are not enough to bring long-term stuttering, how exactly does stuttering occur? In this regard, although the views of the academic community are different, they all point to the same organ - the brain. The brain is the command that controls the various activities of the human body, and language naturally falls under its jurisdiction.
Children prone to stuttering are born with something different from ordinary people.2 Some argue that stuttering arises from the left and right brains vying for control of the body, some scholars have observed that the connection between different areas of the brain is not close enough, and other academic institutions have found that the neurons in the brains of stuttering children are too active.
Whatever the reason, it is inseparable from the study of the brain. This also gives a wake-up call to the language correction industry: whether it is language correction or home training, you can't ignore the practice of brain-related functions:
Children cannot be taught to slow down, what is important is the rhythm and coherence of language;
Encourage children to be more exposed to their peers, and play is also a way to exercise the brain;
Play role-playing games with your child to reduce your child's attention to stuttering;
Do not laugh and avoid psychological changes in children.
In addition to the above points, the most important thing is that the requirements for children should not be too strict. Although children's stuttering has little to do with psychological changes, long-term criticism and criticism can also make children feel a lack of affection, which may lead to stuttering from physical problems to personality problems.