The kid usually begins to stutter, as soon as he learns to speak with sentences - about a year and a half. And not necessarily the reason lies in the fright or other stressful situation. Specialists say that the "lexical explosion" leads to stuttering in children most often. This applies to children who are silent for a long time. Do not hurry to talk at once and a lot, and then they seem to break through the verbal "dam." The child has a lot of words in the vocabulary, he wants to communicate passionately, emotions overwhelm him. But his speech apparatus does not have time for the needs of a small speaker. Most often, stutterers are particularly susceptible children with a shaky type of nervous system. They tend to take everything to heart, even the slightest changes in the behavior of relatives, their mood. They react very vigorously to family scandals and quarrels. It's worth it to raise your voice to your mother - and the child's speech is malfunctioning by itself. Fortunately, a child's stutter usually passes (only in 5% of cases it flows into pathology). However, parents must do everything in order to avoid a negative outcome.
What is the stammer
If the baby stutters, he should be treated, having determined the type of his stammering. Actually, it can only be determined by a doctor. Therefore, at the first signs of speech failure of the child, you need to show the speech therapist. The specialist will need to determine the type and severity of the logoneurosis. He can prescribe an articulatory gymnastics for homework, and if necessary, individual lessons.
There are spastic stammering and clonic faltering. The first case is more serious. The kid seems to get stuck at the first sounds of words, for a long time he can not begin to speak at all. Here, in addition to special exercises, you may need medical sedatives that relieve spasms in the muscles of the speech device. In the first case, the child repeats in the word the first syllables in the word or the first words in the sentence. Speech confusion can last for a while, then for a while to pass and return again ... Such changes can last up to four to five years. This type of stuttering is rarely delayed until school age.
Stammering, like any neurosis, is an overload of the nervous system. Therefore, even before you and your child see a doctor, you should reduce his emotional stress to a minimum. It is very important that the little man's skill stuttering is not fixed for a long time. So you need to act without delay. And if you follow clearly the rules of communication with a child who began to stutter, then it is possible that you will not need a doctor at all.
A few weeks ... silence
When a child stutters, it is not necessary to treat it with a doctor. You can try home methods. Try not to contact the child with requests, do not start a dialogue with him. Stuttering, first of all, is a violation of the communicative function of speech. Children seldom stammer, playing and talking to themselves. Talk to the baby smoothly, slowly, singing. Do not discuss anything with a child, raising your voice, too emotionally.
Limit the child's stay in front of the TV. If you can not completely abandon the cartoons (for many children this is additional stress), then at least do not let us look at new ones. Books are also better read only by the familiar ones. And do not rush to learn poems - wait until better times.
Let the games be calm. Particularly help water fun - the child's psyche water acts as a tranquilizer. Good games with sand, as well as modeling. If the child is not fidgeting, then one should not forbid him to run. Do not rush to play catch-up yourself.
And the main thing: do not fix the child's attention on his stammering. The child stammers not specifically. Do not pull it, do not ask to say the phrase "okay." And you see, the situation will improve itself.