The child stutters: causes and treatment

Sometimes it happens that the baby suddenly starts to stumble. At this moment, the parents become anxious, joyless pictures of the unborn child sweep through their imaginations. After all, stuttering complicates the life of children and forms a lot of complexes in them.

The child began to stutter: what to do

Experts consider stuttering speech disorders that occur against the background of seizures of various origins: respiratory, articulatory or vocal. First you need to determine whether the child really stutters or he just stutters due to the fact that his thinking goes ahead of speech capabilities.

This can be understood by two criteria:

• Pay attention to whether the child has cramps in the neck or near the mouth at the time of the "stumbling" speech.
• Ask your toddler to speak more slowly and fluently. If it really is a stutter, then the child will not be able to fulfill your request. His speech will only get worse.

After that, remember the background of which events the child's speech deteriorated. Perhaps the failures appeared at the moment when the baby was trying to pronounce a new long word, was in an excited state. The tension in children manifests itself externally: they begin to fiddle with their hair, bite their nails, blush, and stammerly pronounce words. Stuttering can be hereditary. Perhaps one of the relatives stuttered, and this predisposition was passed on to the child.

Stuttering in children: causes

At the heart of the disease in a child, there may be several reasons:

• As noted above, stuttering can be hereditary. Especially often the disease manifests itself in children whose parents had nervous diseases. Often, speech problems occur in babies who have undergone an intrauterine infection, were born prematurely, and were injured during childbirth.
• The disease can result from an infectious disease that affects the brain, such as meningitis or encephalitis.
• Brain damage as a consequence of trauma.
• An infection that affects a child's ears or upper respiratory tract.
• Stress, fright, or other psychological trauma.
• Incorrect development of the child's speech under the influence of parents.

If parents stutter, then the child's speech will be formed incorrectly as a result of his imitation of the parental manner. Sometimes the baby, talking with his parents, begins to stutter involuntarily. In this case, communication with other people goes well. But another case is when a child's speech is formed as an imitation of his parents. Then stuttering will also occur when communicating with other people.

How to treat stuttering

For the treatment of stuttering to be successful, the child needs a calm environment in the home. Only in an atmosphere of love and trust will the baby be able to get rid of the disease. Parents should behave calmly and harmoniously in the presence of a child. No clarification of the relationship is allowed. Show your baby only your love and trust.

It is very important, in addition to a calm home environment, to observe the daily routine. Baby should be good get enough sleep, walk a lot in the fresh air, communication with strangers should be limited.

Watch the way you talk in the presence of your child. Your speech should be fluent and clear, and try to speak expressively at a moderate pace. This will help the baby to tune in to correct pronunciation on a subconscious level. Correct his mistakes gently so as not to scare the child.

For therapeutic purposes, you can use the moments when the child is passionate about the game. Try to create situations in which the child has to speak. For example, a baby can pronounce words on behalf of a toy, repeat phrases from a rhyme or song.

Respiratory gymnastics contributes to the formation of correct speech. Invite your child to take a short breath and a long breath, during which you need to pronounce a phrase or individual words.

It is useful to be creative for the development of speech. It is known that speech and finger motor skills closely connected. Therefore, applique, sculpting and drawing classes will help fight stuttering.

The help of speech therapists is also needed. He will comprehensively consider the problem and give correct recommendations for a speedy recovery of the baby. During classes, the speech therapist teaches the child to breathe correctly, relieves the tension of the muscles of the speech apparatus and trains them. Set yourself up for a lengthy process of stuttering treatment. It will take about a year to completely correct a child's speech.

Stuttering prevention

The most important rule for preventing stuttering is a calm atmosphere around the child. He should grow up in a healthy environment, surrounded by the love of his parents. Conflicts and scandals should not concern the baby.

Parents should talk to the child correctly, not imitating the child's babble and not lisping with him. Do not try to give your child many difficult words, do not force him to memorize poetry. At this age, children perceive well the rhythmic coloring of poems, but they do not always understand their meaning and distort the words. Therefore, it is necessary to choose literature for children according to their age.

Do not intimidate your child by trying to calm their behavior or get what you want from them. Good health is important for him physically and especially psychologically.