What Are the Different Causes of Stuttering in Toddlers?

Stuttering, commonly known as stuttering, is a disorder of normal speech and speech, not a physical defect or a disease of the vocal organs. Children with stuttering are presented with difficulty in pronunciation, repetition when speaking, blushing, red ears, and neck and back muscles and emotional tension, losing fluidity in speaking, pauses on a certain word, stress and dragging, and can also appear as sudden speech Stop or drag a word long. Especially anxious when speechless. Stuttering is divided into transient stuttering, benign stuttering, and permanent stuttering. Generally, the stuttering that occurs in young children in learning to speak can be changed within a few months as long as the parents correct it patiently. This is called transient stuttering; stuttering that occurs in children 3 to 6 years old can disappear within six months to six years. It is benign stuttering; children after the age of 7 repeat the first word when speaking, sometimes light, sometimes heavy, protracted and unclear, often using facial and limb movements to help speak, called permanent stuttering.

Basic Information

nickname

stammer

Visiting department

Department of Psychological Medicine

Multiple groups

child

Common causes

Wording reasons, mimicking infections, sudden mental irritation, disease effects, etc.

Common symptoms

Difficult pronunciation, repeat the whole word or part of the word, extend the syllable

Causes of stuttering in children

Reason for wording

Between the age of two or three and five or six, with the development of self-awareness, children's desire for expression and performance gradually increases. However, at this time, because the language function is not yet mature, the child's thinking ability, vocabulary grasp, and ability to organize sentences are all in the development stage. When children are eager to express, a large amount of language information is stored in the mind, but the expressive ability cannot keep up. Thinking Cannot match the speed of speaking, which causes more stuttering.

2. Imitation infection

Stuttering is highly infectious. Because children's language functions are not perfect, they are easily affected by stuttering people. For example, regular contact with stuttering people and imitating speech of stuttering people may cause stuttering in children.

3. Sudden mental stimulation

Such as parent quarrels, family conflicts, sudden changes in the environment, and sudden strong panic stimuli can make children feel very nervous. If the parents fail to relieve the child's nervousness in a timely and effective manner, they may also cause the child to stutter.

4. Parental irritability

At the stage of children's learning to speak, when the pronunciation is inaccurate or the characters are not clear, parents are eager to make too many corrections, so that when the child has not finished a sentence, they often interrupt the speech and correct it. As a result, children's psychological pressure is very great, and they will become nervous when they speak, worrying about saying the wrong thing. The more you are afraid of speaking the wrong words, the greater the psychological pressure and the more nervous you are, the easier it is to say the wrong things. Stuttering may occur when a child's language expression cannot keep up with the speed of thought.

5. Forcibly correct "left-handed"

When parents or teachers force children to correct left-handed habits, some children will also stutter. We know that people are used to calling the hemisphere controlling speech ability the dominant hemisphere. For those who are used to using the right hand, the dominant hemisphere is on the left; for those who are used to using the left hand (left-hander), the dominant hemisphere is on the right. If parents force Zuo Li's child to eat with chopsticks in his right hand, the brain will become confused in the process of forming the dominant hemisphere of language, causing stuttering.

6. Disease impact

Illness also affects stuttering, especially in early childhood. If chronic illness occurs, it may cause young children to stutter during or after illness. In addition, cases of stuttering caused by trauma, such as falls, concussions, fire injuries, crashes, etc. may also cause young children to stutter during or after illness.

Clinical manifestations of stuttering in children

Children with stuttering are presented with difficulty in pronunciation, repetition when speaking, blushing, red ears, and neck and back muscles and emotional tension, losing fluidity in speaking, pauses on a certain word, stress and dragging, and can also appear as sudden speech Stop or drag a word long. Especially anxious when speechless.

Stuttering is divided into transient stuttering, benign stuttering, and permanent stuttering.

Stuttering briefly

Generally, the stuttering that young children have in learning to speak can be changed in a few months as long as the parents correct it patiently. This is called transient stuttering;

2. Benign stuttering

Stuttering in children aged 3 to 6 years can disappear in six to six years, which is called benign stuttering;

3. Permanent stuttering

Children after the age of 7 repeat the first word when speaking, sometimes light, sometimes heavy, and the sound of the word is long and unclear. They often use facial and limb movements to help speak, which is called permanent stuttering.

Pediatric stuttering correction

1. Don't laugh at the child, let alone imitation.

2. Help children build confidence to heal stuttering. Parents should create a relaxed and happy life and language environment for the child to reduce his attention to stuttering.

3. Talk more with the patient patiently and slow down when speaking to the child. If the child does not pick it up for a while, don't rush to remind him, but let him talk down naturally, so that the child is immersed in the atmosphere of natural conversation. Never interrupt, rectify, or condemn the children while they are talking. When the child no longer has stuttering, slowly increase the speaking speed.

4. Basic training of children's pronunciation. To pronounce word by word, read word by word, especially the first word of each sentence, and speak slowly. Relax your muscles and breathe evenly.

5. Guide children to read sentences aloud on the basis of basic pronunciation training, practice short sentences first, and then read long sentences. The training forms a language habit that is easy, rhythmic, and fast.

Prevention of stuttering in children

Here are some suggestions to prevent children from becoming stuttering permanently:

1. Do not repeat or imitate the child's stuttering phenomenon. This will strengthen the excitement of stuttering in his cerebral cortex, making it difficult to correct stuttering.

2. When speaking with children, be calm and listen to the children's words patiently. After he has finished speaking, you can ask questions or give opinions.

3. Usually encourage children often. When he makes a little progress, encourage him to praise in time, so that the stuttering phenomenon can be corrected as soon as possible.

4. Parents can say children's songs or tongue twisters with him when the child is happy. As the saying goes, "Singing without stuttering", even severe stuttering can be as fluent as ordinary people when singing. If the child is stuck on the first word, the child can also sing the first word. At home, you can cooperate with music and dance to train children to master haste, panic and rhythmic movements, which is very effective in correcting stuttering.

5. Guide children as slowly as possible and don't speak too fast.

6. Teach children to relax as much as possible when speaking.