Online Training Course for New Stuttering Therapy Online Training Course for New Stuttering Therapy Site is still under heavy construction. Please start with whatever we have got so far. We have developed an explanation how stuttering starts in the speech errors that all children exhibit. According to this account, all children repeat simple words that precede more complex ones. This buys extra time to plan the difficult word that is coming up.
Linguists divide words into function and content words.
As speech errors on function words occur in all speakers speech, they are not considered a characteristic that leads to long term stuttering. We have found that the speech of children who do not grow out of their stutter show a change in the pattern of their speech. They stop repeating function words and carry on and try and say the content word before they are ready. What we plan to do is to reassure the child when he or she is emitting function word repetitions and stop them speaking when they start content words where there is evidence of stuttering. A therapist will talk to the child for about an hour.