
5 Tips for Parents of Young Children Who Stutter
Stuttering is a fairly common childhood communication difficulty, with up to 8% of children stuttering at some point between the age of one and five. Stuttering involves the involuntary disruption to the flow of a persons speech, and when it occurs in early childhood, it resolves without intervention in up to 75 percent of instances. If you would like to know more about stuttering, we have an in-depth post all about disfluency you can see here. As a parent, it can be difficult to know how to interact with a child who stutters. Should you help them by finishing their sentences or give them time to finish? Should you talk to them about their stutter or ignore it completely? Below are some of our best tips for interacting with and responding…