How to prevent your baby from stuttering? What are the misunderstandings about your baby's language development?

Stuttering is a language disorder. To prevent stuttering, we must start from the early childhood of the baby. Once parents teach their baby to speak in an inappropriate way, it is likely to have a great impact on the baby's life. Let's learn how to prevent it.

Discover the problem as early as possible. There are two reasons for children's language disorders: one is physiological and the other is psychological. If parents find that their children's language ability is obviously behind their peers, they should take their children to the hospital for examination in time to see if there are some physiological reasons that limit the child's language function. After finding out the reasons, they should correct them quickly, otherwise it will delay the child's future study and life. Long-term stuttering will not only bring a lot of trouble to the child, but also easily cause him psychological trauma, which greatly affects the child's development.

Don't put pressure on children. Many children may not speak clearly or stutter because they are too nervous. This is due to psychological interference. The reason is probably that they have left psychological shadows when learning to speak, which makes children shy and not good at speaking. Children need not only oral development but also brain development to learn to speak. Parents should not put too much pressure on them when teaching them to speak, and be patient when correcting them, so as not to make them too nervous.

Don’t repeat the reduplication of words. The first words that children learn are simple reduplication of words such as dad, mom, grandpa, grandma, etc. However, these words are not suitable for children to practice for a long time. If children are used to saying reduplication of words, they are likely to develop a repetitive language habit, which will eventually lead to a habit of repeating a word when speaking, causing stuttering. Therefore, when parents teach their children to speak, they should pay attention to the collocation of words and don’t let them say reduplication of words for a long time.

1. Children usually stutter because they are too anxious to interrupt others when they are speaking. Some parents always like to interrupt their children when they are expressing their ideas. In fact, this is wrong. Even if the child speaks incorrectly, even if he expresses himself slowly or unclearly, he should be allowed to finish what he wants to say. Only in this way can the child have fluent thinking and smooth language expression ability.

2. Some children stutter because they meet other children who stutter while playing, and they think it is fun so they learn to speak like stutterers. In such cases, the children must be corrected in time, because if children learn something wrong, they must know it so that they will correct it.

3. In addition, there are some children with particularly active thinking. The reason why they stutter is that their brains think very fast, and the speed of speaking cannot keep up with the speed of thinking, so stuttering occurs. In this case, the children should learn eloquence and try to slow down their speaking speed. After a period of training, they will get better.

1. Expressions of nervousness, embarrassment, and shyness. 2. Avoiding eyes, peeking. 3. Embarrassed and embarrassed attitude. 4. Impatient behavior, erratic movements of hands and feet, and facial twitching. 5. Speaking in a hurry, with a chaotic rhythm, rapid changes in voice, abnormal speed and tone, and hesitation to speak.

Myth 1: Boys start talking later than girls. Many people think so, but this is actually a misconception. Data show that before the age of 3, boys and girls develop speech and language milestones at similar rates. In fact, boys are at a higher risk of developmental problems related to language delay than girls, because the prevalence of autism is higher in males than in females. If boys' early language delay is evaluated and intervened, better results will be achieved.

Myth 2: Children from bilingual families learn to speak late. Significant delays in early language development in children are not associated with a bilingual environment. Clinicians can make relevant judgments when evaluating the language skills of children exposed to bilinguals.

Myth 3: Some children just don’t like to talk. This also doesn’t explain a child’s language development problems. Because young children are naturally driven to communicate, typically developing children seek social interaction from infancy. Lack of internal drive to communicate and connect with others is a red flag for developmental delay or other disorders (such as autism) and should be taken seriously.

Myth 4: A child who doesn't talk much but understands everything is a normal child. Although this may be the case, clinicians will use some scales to help parents find some correlations between expressive language delay and receptive language delay.

Myth 5: He speaks well at home, but stops speaking at kindergarten. This does not require intervention. Doctors remind parents that some children only speak in familiar environments, usually only with a few close family members, and they should consider that it may be an anxiety disorder. Although the overall language development of such children may be normal, they also need intervention/treatment to relieve anxiety, which will affect their social-emotional development and overall development. Late speaking may be a danger sign of multiple diseases: including autism, neurological diseases, intellectual problems, articulation problems, social disorders, etc.