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Drugs Are Not The Answer
User question
Your site is so helpful for parents like me! My daughter is 30 months
old and she is has been experiencing stammering for two months now.
At first we went to the doctor and he gave her some drugs which improved
her fluency significantly. Then it happened again, and the second
medical treatment was interrupted because we couldn't simply convince
her to swallow the drugs. The stammering occured again, and again
we went to the doctor. Now she has got a syrup which is better than
the previous bitter pills.
I am not comfortable with this drug treatment, so please tell me if
there is any other remedy which doesn't involve drugs? I would be
very much grateful to receiving your professional advice on the matter.
Thanking you in advance,
Our advice
Thank you for your positive feedback and query. Our advice, with regard to your
30 month old daughter is to seek help from your local Speech and Language
Therapist.
There is no evidence in research about stammering that drugs help
to either resolve or manage the problem, and we have never heard of
it being used as a treatment in childhood. Evidence HAS shown that
4 out of 5 children of this age grow out of stammering and this may
be the case with your child.
There is more advice available on our website which can be accessed
by clicking on the relevant links. We suggest that you try to carry
out some of this advice. We hope that this has been helpful to you
and wish you all the best for the future.
For our more advice for parents of stammering children, please visit
our Parents section. |
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Rees (10) only stammered at school and only in some lessons. It made
a real difference to him when we arranged an informal meeting for
him, his teacher and his parents. He came up with some sensible ideas
to help his teacher deal with those difficult moments.
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