Parental Diagnosis Of Stuttering In Young Children

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996 parents of 1st grade children were interviewed by speech therapists with 153, or 15.4%, saying that their child had stuttered prior to entering school, with the diagnosis made 1.5 times more frequently for sons than for daughters. Approximately 70% of the parents actively sought to correct the disturbance. There was a relationship between the active correction of the non-fluency and the perpetuation of the stuttering. However, approximately half of the children treated "incorrectly" were said to have stopped stuttering. Parents were more concerned when the symptoms were multiple rather than singular. More parents actively corrected the child for stuttering when the alleged cause was emotional. Parents attributed the cause to emotional disturbances in 62% of the severer cases as compared to 29% and 9% for habit disorders and environmental influences. When emotional problems were said to be the cause, 41% were said to have stopped stuttering, whereas 82% of the stutterers thought to be reacting to environmental influences were said to have stopped.

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