| What types of therapy are available to parents of | | | | stammering habits. This is what a stammer soon |
| young children who have a stammer? To hear | | | | starts to become, a habit. It actually becomes |
| your child stammer can be truly heartbreaking | | | | one of the hardest habits to break and one that |
| and extremely worrying. Parents often start to | | | | many adults never actually succeed in breaking, |
| question as to how or why the child has started | | | | therefore a child requires plenty of time to take in |
| to stammer and will be eager to find a solution. | | | | and absorb the information. |
| It can be very difficult to teach a young person | | | | I personally feel that it is the parent who should |
| any form of speech therapy technique. | | | | be teaching the fluency techniques to their child |
| Techniques which would be extremely beneficial | | | | and that any speech coach should actually be |
| to teenagers and adults can be quite hard to | | | | coaching the parents who then pass on the |
| understand for someone so young. This only adds | | | | stuttering therapies to their child. |
| to the frustration of the parent who can certainly | | | | These stuttering treatments should be tailored |
| see how and why the treatment could work but | | | | directly to suit the age of the child therefore for |
| do not want to wait until their sibling is of an age | | | | the very young children who stammer they could |
| to understand. | | | | well be in the form of a game. |
| This is where patience comes in, not so much in | | | | The speech coach, stuttering specialist or speech |
| having to wait a number of years until the child | | | | therapist should be happy to provide a continued |
| will be able to comprehend the stuttering therapy | | | | support service as this is essential in ensuring that |
| techniques, but more in the way of the parent | | | | the child has the best possible chance of |
| being patient in the child's ability to change their | | | | overcoming their stammer. |