| Speech therapy is the technique to solve | | | | therapist teaches how to form words, how to |
| stuttering and other voice related problems | | | | speak slowly and try to relax the child while |
| especially among children. It is practiced by speech | | | | speaking. The child is taught how to eliminate |
| therapists and speech pathologists who are | | | | unwanted physical gestures like eye blinking, lip |
| accredited to give treatment to people with | | | | movements etc. while speaking. He is learned to |
| speech disorders. This can be conducted in a | | | | cop with the emotional stress during stuttering. |
| therapist's clinic, or in a school, hospital or home. A | | | | In the fluency shaping therapy, the muscles, jaws |
| variety of activities like word or sound repetitions. | | | | and tongue are trained to slow down the speech |
| Reading and comprehension, conversations, | | | | using breath control. This program can be used |
| rhymes are employed in a speech therapy | | | | with children having severe stuttering problems |
| program. | | | | and may last for a period of two years. The |
| The length and type of the therapy may vary | | | | program has a high success rate. |
| depending on the extent, difficulty and age of the | | | | Parent counseling is another important part of a |
| stutterer. Basically, the speech therapist tries to | | | | typical speech therapy program. The children |
| know the extent of stuttering through a formal | | | | prefer parents as good teachers as the love and |
| interview of the student and parent and | | | | affection they receive improve the recovery |
| recommend the treatment procedure typical to | | | | process. Parents are taught how to respond to |
| the child. Basically two different forms of speech | | | | the child's stuttering in the positive way to |
| therapy treatment for stuttering exist. | | | | eliminate parental mistakes in managing stuttering |
| In the indirect approach, a comfortable and | | | | children. |
| relaxing environment is created for the child to | | | | Speech therapy as a remedy for solving |
| improve the speech naturally. This is because, | | | | stuttering is best preferred for the school children |
| most of the stuttering children develop over a | | | | around ages 5 to 7. The therapy is difficult to get |
| period of time and therefore it is better to | | | | results in pre school children because they are not |
| monitor the progress. | | | | adjustable to the pressures of speech therapy |
| In the direct treatment program, a therapist | | | | methods. |
| interacts directly with the child face to face. The | | | | |