Stuttering is something that affects the fluency or flow of speech. It begins during childhood and can continue right through a person’s life. It is characterised by specific types of disruptions or disfluencies in the production of speech sounds that occur regularly and impact on communication. Most people produce disfluencies in their speech. However these are usually brief and generally do not cause a problem.
Speech containing stuttering may include:
For older children, the focus is on:
Diagnosis alone is NOT the solution. It simply opens the door to getting the help that is needed by arming all involved with the relevant information.
The ‘help’ still needs to be provided. The help that is provided (at least from a therapy perspective) will reflect:
Diagnoses are used to label a specific set of symptoms that are being experienced by a child.
This label then helps to narrow down and specifically tailor what:
A diagnosis helps the child and their carers (parents, teachers, health professionals, carers) to:
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