| Covert stuttering can be defined as a condition | | | | eventually avoid speaking much. |
| where the person who stutters tries to hide his | | | | This denies the stutterers an opportunity to |
| stuttering problem by avoiding it or by masking a | | | | speak themselves out; it is something which they |
| few words. This attempt to conceal their problem | | | | do to themselves and due to this they suffer |
| by the stutterers is an effect of the treatment | | | | emotionally. The fear of being exposed to the |
| meted out to them by the society. If a stutterer | | | | world as a stutterer looms large and this causes a |
| had been subjected to mockery during his | | | | great deal of emotional stress to the stutterers. |
| childhood, he would feel the pressure to hide his | | | | In the process of hiding their disability, they speak |
| stuttering from others so as to avoid being the | | | | less and sooner or later end up restraining |
| most ridiculed. Sometimes this type of covert | | | | themselves from achieving better results. |
| nature is triggered in stuttering children because | | | | Constant fear coupled with the inability to accept |
| of the parents' refusal to accept the problem in | | | | their problem forces them to withdraw from the |
| their children. | | | | social scene making them susceptible to loneliness. |
| Covert stuttering is more prominent and most | | | | In order to avoid stutterers from being covert |
| probable only among mild stutterers as it is not | | | | about their problem, they must be treated rightly |
| possible to conceal a severe stutter. Most | | | | in their surroundings. Parents must never |
| stutterers use filler words to do so; words like | | | | encourage their children to practice covert |
| 'ummm' or 'I think' precede their sentences to | | | | stuttering as it will not only affect them |
| give the listener the impression that they are just | | | | emotionally but will also serve as a deterrent to |
| thinking and taking their time to speak rather than | | | | any chance of recovery that the child may have. |
| stuttering. Some others avoid from using certain | | | | Instead of practicing it as a way of life, stutterers |
| words and substitute them with their synonyms | | | | must use it only under necessary circumstances |
| so that they do not have to stutter on the | | | | so that it boosts their confidence. But it must be |
| difficult word. Most of the times, the avoidance | | | | remembered that it always better to accept |
| extends to their speech too. Stutterers tend to | | | | one's disability than having to run away from it. |
| speak less in a crowded environment and | | | | |