| ADVICE
TO PARENTS OF CHILDREN WHO STUTTER |
- Listen
to what your child is saying, not how he is saying it.
- Eliminate
communicative stress.
- Don't
hurry the child when he is
| Listen
to what your child is saying, not how he is saying
it. |
speaking.
- Don't
interrupt him.
- Don't
finish what he is saying.
- Don't
set him up to talk or put him on stage.
- Don't
ask questions as a way to communicate.
- Present
a model of easy, relaxed and SLOW speech.
- Increase
the time between the end of t
 he
child's utterance and the start of your response. (Response
time latency)
- Put
a short period of uninterrupted time aside every day to
play with your child, modeling easy, relaxed and slow speech.
- Observe
your behaviors when your child is dysfluent. Be careful
not to increase your attention just because he is being
dysfluent.
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is Stuttering?
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