Stuttering in children

Stuttering in preschool children is quite common. It results from the disproportion between what the child wants to say and what they can say. Conceptual thinking and are the vocabulary exceed the skills of the child’s speech apparatus. Stuttering is a speech fluency disorder characterized by choppy sentences, pauses, stops, and slow sounds.

There are generally two types of stuttering – developmental stuttering, which is transient and disappearing, and early childhood stuttering of a pathological nature, resulting from progressive developmental stuttering. How is stuttering manifested in children, and how can you deal with it? There are several types of stuttering in children: transient stuttering – is the natural stage of speech development in the first years of a child’s life. The child speaks not very fluently, stutters, tries to replace the word with another word.

Developmental stuttering is statistically more common in boys than girls. It also occurs in children whose parents want to switch from left-handed to right-handedness – the speech centre is in the left hemisphere of the brain; Habitual stuttering – arises as a result of abnormal structure of the vocal cords and disturbances in the coordination of the muscles involved in the speech process, and is also fueled by contact with the person who stutters.

If we want the child to speak nicely and fluently, as adults, we should set a good example for the children and take care of the correct way of speaking; Stuttering due to anxiety disorders – the medium for the development of this type of stuttering in children is anxiety and neurotic disorders, e.g. due to severe stress that arises due to constant quarrels of parents, beating a child, sexual harassment, divorce of parents or domestic violence.