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stuttering in preschool children

From: Kathlyn McNeal
Date: 10/20/00
Time: 11:08:57 AM
Remote Name: 64.154.249.4

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I am the mother of a three-and-one-half year girl who is exhibiting atypical dysfluencies for her age. I am also a speech/language pathologist (with limited experience with people who stutter). We have been following guidelines for indirectly dealing with her dysfluency. The characteristics that trouble me the most are phonatory and respiratory compensations she sometimes appears to make to deal with dysfluent periods (there is also a paternal familial history of stuttering). What I would like to know is if you might be able to give me any suggestions for directly dealing with someone this age. I would appreciate any concrete examples of what I could say to her during times of dysfluency. I realize that you have not heard this child, but as a practicing speech language pathologist, I could read through the suggestions and see what would be most helpful for her. Although I am an SLP, I am obviously emotionally clouded by this, and would truly appreciate any suggestions that that I could read through.


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