Stuttering And Its Effects
Are you one of the many people who has a stutter? I am somebody
who has overcome a stutter and who now helps other people to
achieve fluency. This article looks into the reasons why people
start stuttering, I hope you enjoy the read.
It can be a very worrying time for parents who realise that
their child has started stuttering. Not all people who have a
stutter have it from childhood. I have met quite a number of
people who were fluent in childhood, however started to stutter
when they were an adult. So what causes a stutter?
There are many reasons people start stuttering in the first
place. These are some of them:
It can be as a result of a traumatic event.
A family member may have a stutter, and they have picked up the
bad speaking habits.
People may copy a friend at school who has a stutter and then it
sticks.
An over aggressive relative who is not very patient.
A few years ago, I had a female client who explained how she had
developed a stutter. She had been 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 of motherhood and
was certainly not prepared of what would happen next.
She was quite nervous about giving birth of the baby and her
friends had been winding her up telling her how painful the
experience is. She realised that they were only trying to wind
her up and basically ignored them.
The day of the birth arrived and unfortunately the delivery was
particulary long and difficult. She was extremely shocked about
how bad it actually was and for whatever reason she developed a
stutter after the birth of the baby, who was a healthy boy.
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.