Why Do People Stutter?
My name is Asa and I live in Austin, Texas. I love to sing. I stutter with bumpys. I repeat words and sounds. I started stuttering when I was four. Now I’m seven. I also love animals. I have a hamster, a dog and a cat. My hamster’s name is Peanut, my dog is Leroy, and my cat Puppy. I know, I know. A cat named Puppy! My mom named her. I have a mom, dad, and brother who live with me. Lots of people used to make fun of me but I found stuttering therapy. They help me to be a better communicator despite my stutter. I’ve also gotten to be a great communicator at speech. My speech therapists are really awesome. I want to know why people stutter. Is it just because of breathing in the middle of sounds?
Asa, 7 Austin, TX
I Inherited Stuttering
My name is Alice. How I first knew I stuttered was when I went to speech therapy. I have some questions for you. My first question is what is the most common type of stuttering? Another one of my ques- tions is which gender stutters the most – boys or girls? One more question I have for you: is stuttering more common in places where it runs in the family? Stuttering runs in my family. I inherited stuttering from my grandmother. That’s how come I stutter.
Alice, 8, from Austin, TX
Alice and Asa –you both have some very good questions that everyone would like the answers to! If we knew why people stutter, we could probably get rid of stuttering once and for all. No one really knows for sure, but it is likely there are several things going on when we stutter, not just one cause. For some people there is a genetic component – it is in their family makeup, like for you Alice. More boys than girls stutter, but they aren’t sure why that is either. And we bet you don’t stutter when you sing – most people don’t. Singing uses a different area of the brain than speech. There is no “common” type of stuttering other than it is usually repetition of sounds or words. But some people have trouble getting started at all and that is called blocking. Just know that stuttering is not your fault and do the things you can to have smoother speech and then just let it go and don’t be worried by it!
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