When to worry about stuttering, and whether it will go away
How to tell stuttering from ordinary stumbles, what research can and cannot predict about a child growing out of it,...
Guides
Everything this site explains about stuttering in children and teenagers, grouped by the question you are asking. Each guide is written from published sources and names them.
New to the subject? Stuttering in children explains what stuttering is and what changes with age.
What stuttering is, what causes it, and whether to wait or get help.
How to tell stuttering from ordinary stumbles, what research can and cannot predict about a child growing out of it,...
Nothing a parent did causes stuttering. Here is what research supports as causes, what only makes stuttering show more on...
Stuttering and stammering are the same condition under two names. Here is which countries use which word, whether British advice...
ADHD, autism, apraxia, speech sound and language difficulties, and speaking two languages: what research says about each alongside a stutter,...
Cluttering is the other fluency disorder: speech that sounds too fast, with words running together and sentences that restart. Here...
The named treatments compared by age and evidence, and the short practice at home between sessions.
The Lidcombe Program, RESTART-DCM, Palin PCI, syllable-timed speech and the Camperdown Program in one table, with an honest answer on...
The short daily practice the speech pathologist shows a parent in the Lidcombe Program: the five kinds of feedback in...
What to say and do at home, what to ask of a school, and where stuttering sits with the NDIS.
What to say when your child gets stuck on a word, when a brother or sister teases and when a...
A note to the teacher you can copy, adjustments for roll call, reading aloud and oral assessment, what to do...
Two Australian answers, each from the body that decides it: discrimination law and what a school must do, and the...
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