Stuttering

Clinicians often prescribe direct treatments to manage speech dysfluencies in children who stutter. Such treatments employ fluency strategies that help to decrease tension when speaking, modify a child’s speaking rate and improve her emotional relationship with stuttering. In addition, indirect therapy has been shown to be crucial in the overall treatment program. (Guitar, 2025). What […]

We often think that stuttering in children is easy to identify. Common stuttering behaviors include 1) word and sound repetition (go-go-go away; ba-ba-basketball), 2) prolongations, in which the sound is held for too long (Sssssssam is here), and 3) blocks, in which the child tries to speak but no sound comes out (I am…..so hungry).  Often,