NORMAL NON – FLUENCY GUIDELINES TO PARENTS
- Listen with pleasure with no completion of speech.
- Be interested and show the child that you are.
- Give him/her plenty of time to talk.
- Give him/her more opportunities.
- Encourage a pleasant relationship with others at home.
- Develop a sense of responsibility.
- Get him/her interested in/outdoor sports.
- Help him/her not to fear situations, words.
- Read stories together.
- Encourage singing.
- Make most of her assets.
- Help children in neighborhood and classroom understand her problem.
- Encourage him to have an objective attitude towards his problem.
- Prevent experiences that set off periods of excessive trouble.
- Talk slowly and distinctly yourself.
- Slow the place of your own movements.
- Keep your anxiety and concert away from the child.
- Occasionally fake some breaks in your rhythmic pattern.
- Give the child additional opportunities to talk in periods when there is fluency.
- Convince him that his speech doesn’t embarrass you.
- Caution him against any tricks that bring temporary fluency which make problem worse.
AVOID
- Nagging
- Calling attention to his/her stuttering/labeling his speech on sound’s produced.
- Make her talk/perform when she is not ready.
- Completing the sentence for her.
- Hurrying her.
- Interrupting her.
- Ignore her because you have other things to do.
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