For us, stuttering is all too familiar, many people regard stuttering as a disease, equating it with colds and fevers, and the treatment method is also everyone's own opinion.
However, stuttering has never been a disease, it is a language disorder related to genetics, neurodevelopment, psychological factors, and language behavior.
When many parents find that their children have signs of stuttering, they are inevitably busy and panicked, and they do not know whether to go to the hospital or go directly to the language institution for language correction, for fear of choosing the wrong direction to delay the child's life.
As practitioners in the field of language correction, we still recommend that parents first go to the hospital for a comprehensive examination to rule out possible organic problems, and then come to us with the doctor's diagnosis certificate, which can help us judge the child's stuttering problem faster and more accurately.
Prior to this, inexperienced parents tended to take the lead and use the experience of the previous generation or the knowledge found on the Internet to correct their children's stuttering. Because the method is not scientific, the child's stuttering will only become more serious.
In the final analysis, some parents do not conduct in-depth research on stuttering, and secondly, they lack the experience and ability to deal with stuttering and parenting, which will only backfire and end up with the result of good intentions and bad things. So, what do we need to know about stuttering?
These factors can make stuttering solidify
The vast majority of problems with stuttering during language development can be recovered under conditions of natural growth or through external assistance, and only 5% of them evolve into truly long-term language disorders. That being said, there are about 12-15 million stuttering patients on the mainland, and the group is very large.
The incidence of stuttering in preschool children is not very high, about 1%-3%, most of them will gradually disappear with the improvement of language ability, and only a small number of children will continue to stutter until school age. Don't underestimate this number, many of these children grow up to be suicidal because of stuttering.
Ultimately, whether a child's stuttering will develop into stubbornness depends on what triggers it. If your child accounts for three or more of the following four conditions, parents should pay more attention to their children:
1. Genetic factors
Medically proven, stuttering is hereditary. If someone in a child's family has a stuttering problem, the next generation has a higher chance of stuttering.
2. Gender
Because there are gender differences in language skills, girls always develop better than boys. According to statistics, the incidence of stuttering in boys is 3-4 times that of girls.
3. Age
If a child develops stuttering before the age of 3 years and 6 months, the probability of self-healing will be higher than that of a child who stutters after the age of 3 and a half.
4. Duration
If the child has a stuttering problem, but the parents do not find and correct it in time, so that the stuttering situation lasts for more than half a year, then the probability of the child's self-healing will be greatly reduced.
The core of stuttering correction is stability, and the patience of parents is the key
We often hear parents tell us that when the child is not clear or stutters at home, he will tell the child to "speak slowly" and "not in a hurry". Slowness is indeed a shortcut to quick results in stuttering correction, and can effectively overcome the muscle tension caused by nerve impulses. However, the result of this is a relapse of stuttering.
Some parents are impatient, lack patience with their children, and face children who are stumbling in their speech, and they can't move to use "you speak slowly!" "Say it wrong, say it again!" Waiting for words to stimulate the child, causing the child to become more and more afraid of speaking. Both of these practices are unreasonable, and the key to stuttering correction lies in stability.
Among the causes of stuttering, personality problems account for a large proportion, and the more stuttering children want to say a sentence in their entirety, the more they cannot pronounce their voices, and the more anxious they are. Stuttering correction is all about helping children achieve and consolidate language fluency in the presence of coordinated pronunciation organs, stable breathing, and emotional stability.
Just like when a fire occurs, the best coping mentality is not slow, but also too flustered will be overwhelmed, and even help the fire, then the most needed thing is a calm mentality, so as to maintain a clear and agile mind.
Although we are not idealists, mental and psychological composure can directly affect the physiological activities of the human body. If the stuttering child learns to remain calm, his heartbeat and blood pressure will not accelerate and rise, and the entire human body function can be in a relatively stable state, and he will naturally not stutter when speaking.
Therefore, the family behavior of stuttering correction is not how rich the experience of the parents is, as long as you have enough patience, put the stability of language in the first place, help the child establish a stable organ state, nerve state and respiratory state, and maintain this state through personality shaping for life.