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"Can parents cause stammering?" Definitely not!
As parents, we all start to assume that everything we do is potentially
wrong for our children, with guilt and worrying seeming to start
as soon as the baby is born! There is apparently an innate drive
that makes us all aim to be perfect parents, demanding that we are able
to get it right.
This misconception about parents causing stammering seems to be related
to some old, poor-quality research. An American speech pathologist (who
had a stammer himself) developed a theory that the problem was caused by
"highly anxious" parents labelling the normal hesitancies of developing
speech as stuttering. Worse still, it was suggested that parents' "negative
reaction" to their child's speech then caused the child to struggle
to stop these moments of disjointedness, and that it was this effort that
created the full-blown stammering.
There have now been countless research studies investigating whether
parents of children who stammer do react or interact differently
with these children - and the answer is quite clear:
Parents don't cause stammering! | |
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Raja
(9) stammers, and so do his father and grandfather. He was being teased
at school, so he came for a two-week intensive course with his parents.
He says he can speak up for himself now, and that school is no longer
a problem.
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