We are not all able to communicate fluently
There are many people in the world who have problems with their
communication. In this article I concentrate on the specific
speech impediment called stuttering.
Why do people stutter?
There are many reasons people may develop a stuttering problem:
A traumatic event such as the loss of a relative
Someone in the family such as a parent may have had a stutter
The person who has a stutter may have copied a friend at say
school who has a stutter and then it has resulted in them also
stuttering
An over aggressive relative telling the person to spit their
words out etc.
A while ago I had a female client who told me how she had
developed a stutter. She was fluent until the age of twenty
four. At this age she became pregnant for the first time, she
was very happy and excited about the prospects about becoming a
mother.
She was apprehensive about the birth and her friends had been
winding her up telling her how painful the experience is. She
knew that they were only teasing and tried to keep relaxed.
The day of the birth arrived and unfortunately the delivery was
particulary hard and she was extremely shocked about how bad it
actually was. After the birth of the baby, who was a healthy boy
she developed the stutter.
Not all people who stutter have it from an early age, another
one of my clients was fluent until the age of nineteen. At this
age he had a car crash and this was the trigger to him starting
to stutter.
Stephen Hill