Stuttering

Myth: If a person really have the willpower to speak, she can speak without stuttering.

Reality: Since the occurrence of stuttering is involuntary, the person who stutters can not have absolute control over your speech. So, not the greatest willpower could prevent the occurrence of stuttering. Moreover, willpower can be a great ally in overcoming stuttering, facilitating adherence to specialized treatments.

Stuttering

Myth: Scare can cure stuttering.

Reality: A scare has the power to alter the genetic predisposition for stuttering or modify the structure and function of the brains of people who stutter. So scares do not cure stuttering.

Stuttering

Myth: A person stutters, because he thinks faster than speech.

Reality: All people think faster than they speak. For example, when a fight presenciarmos, our thoughts quickly detects that the situation in question is a fight we see almost instantly the location that happens and the people involved. But on the other hand, if we have to talk about what they witnessed, we will need a much longer time to do so. For everyone else, thought is like a lightning talks and the accompanying thunder moments later. Therefore, the speed of thought can not be the cause of stuttering, because everyone thinks faster than he talks, but not everyone stutters.

Stuttering

Myth: Forcing the child to read aloud in the classroom makes her lose her shyness and fear of speaking.

Reality: Shyness and fear do not cause stuttering. So is the unfounded belief that, if the child fails to stop being shy or afraid to speak, stuttering disappears. In fact, shyness and fear of speaking can be consequences of stuttering: the child may be afraid to speak up because you think you can not stutter, but because they know it will stutter because he also knows that he can not prevent the occurrence of stuttering, and often, believing that it should be able to do something not to stutter. On the other hand, fear can actually aggravate stuttering. Thus, forcing the child to read aloud in the classroom will only help to make the problem worse. In legal terms, forcing the student with stuttering reading aloud or present seminars is very serious indeed justifying the opening of the legal process because of embarrassment generated by situations.

Stuttering

Myth: Help tell the person to calm down, relax, take a deep breath before speaking or thinking before speaking.

Reality: This type of recommendation causes stuttering seems something very simple to solve. If they really were so, there would be so many people with persistent stuttering and maybe even would need treatment for stuttering. When one hears of stuttering with his interlocutor something like calm down, relax, breathe and think before you speak, it is even more worried about her disorder, which likely contribute to worsen stuttering. Thus, the intention of helping the party ends even more disturbing. Often the malaise that the speaker feels is greater than that of the person who stutters and it is he who needs to stay calm and relax. Reactions most useful to include the caller expect the stutterer finish his speech, not complete words and seek to speak more slowly and articulate. Finally, respect the time and manner of speaking another.

Stuttering

Myth: If the child began to stutter, just wait passing.

Reality: Most children who stutter recover spontaneously begins shortly after the onset of the first symptoms of stuttering. However, parents have no way of knowing beforehand what the chances of spontaneous improvement occurs with your child. Therefore, it is crucial perform an evaluation with a speech pathologist to see if it is higher the chance of stuttering improve spontaneously or is higher the chance of stuttering persists. An appropriate early intervention is the best way to reduce the negative impact of stuttering on the lives of children and parents.

Stuttering

Myth: If the child begins to stutter, it is best to pretend that nothing is happening so she did not become aware of the problem.

Reality: It was believed that draw attention to your child's speech would be the immediate cause of stuttering, causing hesitation common to turn into stuttering. Currently, it is known that this is not true. Talk with your child about stuttering will not make the disorder worse or install. Talk openly with your child about stuttering will make her feel the support of parents, feeling encouraged to share their difficulties. The conspiracy of silence around the stuttering only contributes to increase the distance between parents and children.

Stuttering

Myth: Stuttering by genetic inheritance is better than stuttering by brain injury.

Reality: Not better nor worse, just different. Stuttering can be hereditary transmitted from generation to generation. Moreover, stuttering lesion may involve more extensive damage to the brain. The most important is that both respond favorably to treatment specialist.

Stuttering

Myth: Stress causes stuttering.

Reality: Stress does not cause stuttering, but can make it worse and sometimes even improve stuttering. There are reports in the scientific literature, for example, that soldiers who stutter speak fluently in situations of war and people in situations of discussion, experience a great reduction of stuttering. The physiological changes caused by the degree of freezing response explain the improvement or worsening stuttering under stress.

Stuttering

Myth: Nervousness, anxiety, insecurity, shyness and low self-esteem cause stuttering.

Reality: Psychological factors do not cause stuttering, but may aggravate it. Moreover, it is also incorrect to assume that people who stutter are more likely to be nervous, fearful, anxious, shy or have low self-esteem. Some people who stutter may exhibit anxiety, insecurity, shyness and / or low self-esteem to speak, but these characteristics tend to be communicative consequences of frustrating experiences and not related to stuttering causes of stuttering.

Stuttering

Myth: A shock can cause stuttering.

Reality: If frights from causing stuttering, then probably everyone gaguejariam because, after all, who never took a fright?

Stuttering

Myth: You can catch stuttering by imitation or by hearing another person stutter.

Reality: No one can get stuttering. If so, all the people they lived with someone who stutters, gaguejariam too, but that really does not happen. Also, tell a person who stutters she learned by imitation stuttering means lower her and humiliate her: with so many favorable characteristics to imitate, why choose stuttering, which would be detrimental and would bring disadvantages?

Stuttering

Myth: The child begins to stutter for over-charging the parents.

Reality: Parents of people who stutter are targets of various social stereotypes. Would be overbearing parents, overprotective, with high expectations, perfectionists, with feelings of rejection and ratings on undesirable personality of the child who stutters. However, scientific advances have shown that parents are responsible for their children stuttering. Moreover, certain attitudes can worsen stuttering (eg, tell the child to stop stuttering, think before you speak or be quiet). Thus, the family environment also plays an important role, but not so much in appearance and, yes, recovery from stuttering. Therefore it is extremely important that parents adopt attitudes that promote fluency.

Stuttering

Myth: Parents of children who stutter are primarily responsible for the child's disorder, stuttering as result of a repressive education and recriminadora.

Reality: Stuttering is a neurobiological disorder whose manifestation, in most cases, it happens in absentia of any parental behavior.

When the stuttering occurs due to genetic inheritance, means that the child has genes that predispose to the disorder. Since genes are determined at the moment of fertilization, parents can not choose the genes that the child will receive. Moreover, it is known that environmental influences gene expression. Therefore, providing that the child develops in environments (family, school, social) that promote the proper development of language can be seen as a protective factor.

When the stuttering occurs due to neurological damage, usually the injury was caused by an accident in which the child hit his head (domestic accidents, sports or automobile). Children between 0 and 4 years and adolescents between 15 and 19 years are more likely to suffer head trauma. What parents can do is try to prevent the occurrence of these accidents, taking the necessary precautions.

Although parents can not actually prevent the onset of stuttering, may prevent it from getting worse and become chronic. And it is in these respects that enlightened attitudes of parents are important.

Stuttering

Myth: The child began to stutter after the birth of his brother, because he was jealous of him.

Reality: The apparent causal relationship between the onset of stuttering and the birth of a younger brother is just chance. The frequent interval of 2-3 years between the birth of two brothers is the key to the whole explanation. Stuttering usually starts at around 2-3 years due to a natural phase of development of brain structures responsible for the automation of speech (the basal ganglia). This period coincides with the age difference that is most common between two brothers. That is due to the accidental fact that both the onset of stuttering and the most likely age difference between siblings, are around 2-3 years, there is a high probability that a child begins to stutter near the birth of her brother .

Stuttering

Myth: If a person really have the willpower to speak, she can speak without stuttering.

Reality: Since the occurrence of stuttering is involuntary, the person who stutters can not have absolute control over your speech. So, not the greatest willpower could prevent the occurrence of stuttering. Moreover, willpower can be a great ally in overcoming stuttering, facilitating adherence to specialized treatments.

Stuttering

Myth: Scare can cure stuttering.

Reality: A scare has the power to alter the genetic predisposition for stuttering or modify the structure and function of the brains of people who stutter. So scares do not cure stuttering.

Stuttering

Myth: A person stutters, because he thinks faster than speech.

Reality: All people think faster than they speak. For example, when a fight presenciarmos, our thoughts quickly detects that the situation in question is a fight we see almost instantly the location that happens and the people involved. But on the other hand, if we have to talk about what they witnessed, we will need a much longer time to do so. For everyone else, thought is like a lightning talks and the accompanying thunder moments later. Therefore, the speed of thought can not be the cause of stuttering, because everyone thinks faster than he talks, but not everyone stutters.

Stuttering

Myth: Forcing the child to read aloud in the classroom makes her lose her shyness and fear of speaking.

Reality: Shyness and fear do not cause stuttering. So is the unfounded belief that, if the child fails to stop being shy or afraid to speak, stuttering disappears. In fact, shyness and fear of speaking can be consequences of stuttering: the child may be afraid to speak up because you think you can not stutter, but because they know it will stutter because he also knows that he can not prevent the occurrence of stuttering, and often, believing that it should be able to do something not to stutter. On the other hand, fear can actually aggravate stuttering. Thus, forcing the child to read aloud in the classroom will only help to make the problem worse. In legal terms, forcing the student with stuttering reading aloud or present seminars is very serious indeed justifying the opening of the legal process because of embarrassment generated by situations.

Stuttering

Myth: Help tell the person to calm down, relax, take a deep breath before speaking or thinking before speaking.

Reality: This type of recommendation causes stuttering seems something very simple to solve. If they really were so, there would be so many people with persistent stuttering may not be necessary and stuttering treatment. When one hears of stuttering with his interlocutor something like calm down, relax, breathe and think before you speak, it is even more worried about her disorder, which likely contribute to worsen stuttering. Thus, the intention of helping the party ends even more disturbing. Often the malaise that the speaker feels is greater than that of the person who stutters and it is he who needs to stay calm and relax. Reactions most useful to include the caller expect the stutterer finish his speech, not complete words and seek to speak more slowly and articulate. Finally, respect the time and manner of speaking another.