Stutter is the violation of the speech connected with misoperation of bodies of organs of articulation. These violations arise because of the excessive tension and spasms of muscles of a throat, language, lips or a thorax. The tempo of speech or a rhythm of breath is broken usually that is expressed in inability quickly to begin a phrase, long pauses between words or repetition of separate sounds or syllables of the pronounced words.
The child perceives stutter hard and can become reserved, be closed from the outside world. The child will subconsciously avoid direct contacts and a talk. At early stages of development of a disease it is easier to cope with a problem therefore begin to treat for stutter as soon as noticed this speech defect.
Causes of stutter
Stutter can be caused by the physiological reasons, such as diseases of organs of speech, injuries at childbirth, heredity, diseases of nervous system, and also a nervous breakdown after serious illnesses.
Often the brain develops much quicker than organs of speech therefore the kid is not capable to keep up with a stream of own thoughts and to state them is accurate and legible. It leads to violation of the speech, over time gives in to correction.
Most often stutter results of psychological difficulties, logonevroz. Children are extremely impressionable and emotional, and even the plot of the comic fairy tale about the black-black room can promote emergence of excessive psychoemotional pressure and fears. Besides, social factors can become the cause of stutter: overload of the child language material at a learning of foreign languages, excessive severity of parents, insufficient work on a speech development of the child and violations of tempo of speech and sound pronunciation connected with it.
Before undertaking treatment of the child, parents should analyze own behavior and a state. Children are very susceptible to behavior of adults therefore most often the cause of stutter of the child is in his parents.
Recommendations
To cope with stutter, first of all it is necessary to create favorable psychological house climate. It is regularly necessary to praise the child, to exclude tough remarks, odergivaniye. Parents should not quarrel at the child. It is impossible to focus attention on its problems with the speech at all, it is so possible to aggravate a problem. It is necessary to organize a daily routine. The child has to sleep well and have a rest enough. Before going to bed it is necessary to exclude rough emotions. It is also necessary to avoid intellectual overfatigue. With overcoming stutter the child will be helped by all means by an example of the correct speech of parents. Children at early age imitate what is seen and hear therefore it is necessary to speak slowly, quietly and tenderly, speaking drawlingly often helps. House conditions have to dispose to communication, weaken and allow to concentrate to the kid. Games in the fresh air, hardening, gymnastics perfectly remove nervous tension. It is regularly necessary to be engaged in it with the child. Besides, there is a number of breathing exercises which develop organs of speech of the child and also teach it to breathe correctly during speaking. It is good to combine them with relaxation complexes. It will help to remove muscular stress in organs of speech and in general will calm nervous system.
Work of the house in easy conditions will be more effective as the child is in an environment safe, familiar to it. Combine classes of the logopedist and house exercises.
Besides all this it is necessary to ask for the help experts. The logopedist will pick up a complex of speech exercises for individual classes with the child. The expert of acupressure will save the child from psychosomatic tension. In certain cases drug treatment can be required.