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Please help... I am struggling with my son who is stuttering very VERY badly to the point that he cries from not being able to get out what he wants to say. He recieves speech 2x's per week but it doesn't seem to be making a dent in the stuttering. Any recomendations as to where I can go to recieve help. *Preferably free of charge*
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| Posted: Thu, Dec 29 2011, 4:43 pm Post subject: Re: Stuttering |
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| 5qtkids wrote: | Please help... I am struggling with my son who is stuttering very VERY badly to the point that he cries from not being able to get out what he wants to say. He recieves speech 2x's per week but it doesn't seem to be making a dent in the stuttering. Any recomendations as to where I can go to recieve help. *Preferably free of charge*
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How old is he?
Cranial sacral therapy can help - sometimes you will find someone who'll treat children for free or reduced fee.
I found that when my ds ate foods he was allergic to that he stuttered more.
FTR, I haven't found anything to be 100% with my ds yet 
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How old is your son?
Where do you live? I know of a great chiropractor in Brooklyn that charges $5 per session with children.
My DS stuttered horribly, but it got better on its own, B"H. Depending on the age, sometimes it just goes away on it's own.
I do know of a stuttering expert in Queens, if you are in the NYC area. Phil Schneider. He helped my friend's son. Not free, but he is a great guy and I think will work with you. CUNY schools have speech clinics that are free or sliding scales.
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| Posted: Thu, Dec 29 2011, 5:08 pm Post subject: re: Stuttering |
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| Just want to add that stutteriing is one of the hardest speech problems to treat. Please don't throw names at OP unless you know for a fact that the professional you are recommending helps with stuttering in particular so she does not end up throwing away her money on speech therapists who do not SPECIALIZE in stuttering.
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| Posted: Thu, Dec 29 2011, 5:24 pm Post subject: Re: re: Stuttering |
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| anonymrs wrote: | | Just want to add that stutteriing is one of the hardest speech problems to treat. Please don't throw names at OP unless you know for a fact that the professional you are recommending helps with stuttering in particular so she does not end up throwing away her money on speech therapists who do not SPECIALIZE in stuttering. |
Yes, stuttering is actually genetic. Very very hard to treat.
A chiropractor can do cranial sacral therapy that can help the child calm down. Worked wonders with my DS. And it's only $5 a session, once a week.
Phil Schneider is an expert in stuttering. Here is his website: http://www.schneiderspeech.com/
The speech therapist working with the OP's son now may be doing more harm than good. OP, become an expert in stuttering and have a long talk with the speech therapist about what s/he is doing to help your DS. In my experience, many of these speech therapists were completely useless.
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| Posted: Thu, Dec 29 2011, 5:32 pm Post subject: Re: re: Stuttering |
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| NaturalMom wrote: | | anonymrs wrote: | | Just want to add that stutteriing is one of the hardest speech problems to treat. Please don't throw names at OP unless you know for a fact that the professional you are recommending helps with stuttering in particular so she does not end up throwing away her money on speech therapists who do not SPECIALIZE in stuttering. |
Yes, stuttering is actually genetic. Very very hard to treat.
A chiropractor can do cranial sacral therapy that can help the child calm down. Worked wonders with my DS. And it's only $5 a session, once a week.
Phil Schneider is an expert in stuttering. Here is his website: http://www.schneiderspeech.com/
The speech therapist working with the OP's son now may be doing more harm than good. OP, become an expert in stuttering and have a long talk with the speech therapist about what s/he is doing to help your DS. In my experience, many of these speech therapists were completely useless. |
This.
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| Posted: Thu, Dec 29 2011, 5:40 pm Post subject: re: Stuttering |
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My son is 7yo...I've tried so many different kind of techniques which the speech therapist recommended. I am in boro park. There is no history of stuttering in either my family or my husband. I would be interested in the chiropractor I never heard of that treatment before.Please can I have more information about that.
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| Posted: Thu, Dec 29 2011, 5:48 pm Post subject: re: Stuttering |
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stuttering could sometimes be from a breathing problem (not breathing properly). usually, but not exclusively, when it is a breathing problem, the person gets stuck on the vowels especially if they are the first sound of the word or even worse the first sound when he wants to start talking.
My close cousin stutters terribly and brother told my uncle that playing any kind of whistle instrument has been very effective for ppl that stutter due to breathing problems. (uncles 'shitta' is that till mushiach comes your not supposed to play any instrument other than drums... ) it was confirmed by doctors that it is a breathing problem. and meanwhile he is getting older.... the earlier such issues are cleared up the better. its a pity I know...
anon cuz ppl know me here. not interested they should figure out who I was talking about.
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| Posted: Thu, Dec 29 2011, 6:03 pm Post subject: Re: re: Stuttering |
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| NaturalMom wrote: | | anonymrs wrote: | | Just want to add that stutteriing is one of the hardest speech problems to treat. Please don't throw names at OP unless you know for a fact that the professional you are recommending helps with stuttering in particular so she does not end up throwing away her money on speech therapists who do not SPECIALIZE in stuttering. |
Yes, stuttering is actually genetic. Very very hard to treat.
A chiropractor can do cranial sacral therapy that can help the child calm down. Worked wonders with my DS. And it's only $5 a session, once a week.
Phil Schneider is an expert in stuttering. Here is his website: http://www.schneiderspeech.com/
The speech therapist working with the OP's son now may be doing more harm than good. OP, become an expert in stuttering and have a long talk with the speech therapist about what s/he is doing to help your DS. In my experience, many of these speech therapists were completely useless. |
Not all chiros do cranial sacral.
I haven't had much luck with speech therapists either - at least the ones we've seen. My ds reads Hebrew with no stuttering and davens without stuttering. It's more when he has to think about what he's going to say and how much stress there is to get it out.
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| Posted: Thu, Dec 29 2011, 6:15 pm Post subject: Re: re: Stuttering |
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| 5qtkids wrote: | My son is 7yo...I've tried so many different kind of techniques which the speech therapist recommended. I am in boro park. There is no history of stuttering in either my family or my husband. I would be interested in the chiropractor I never heard of that treatment before.Please can I have more information about that.
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His name is Fernando and he is great with my kids. Here is his website: http://www.bknychiro.com/ Call and make sure he is open if you are going this holiday weekend.
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| Posted: Thu, Dec 29 2011, 6:27 pm Post subject: Re: re: Stuttering |
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| tikva18 wrote: | | NaturalMom wrote: | | anonymrs wrote: | | Just want to add that stutteriing is one of the hardest speech problems to treat. Please don't throw names at OP unless you know for a fact that the professional you are recommending helps with stuttering in particular so she does not end up throwing away her money on speech therapists who do not SPECIALIZE in stuttering. |
Yes, stuttering is actually genetic. Very very hard to treat.
A chiropractor can do cranial sacral therapy that can help the child calm down. Worked wonders with my DS. And it's only $5 a session, once a week.
Phil Schneider is an expert in stuttering. Here is his website: http://www.schneiderspeech.com/
The speech therapist working with the OP's son now may be doing more harm than good. OP, become an expert in stuttering and have a long talk with the speech therapist about what s/he is doing to help your DS. In my experience, many of these speech therapists were completely useless. |
Not all chiros do cranial sacral.
I haven't had much luck with speech therapists either - at least the ones we've seen. My ds reads Hebrew with no stuttering and davens without stuttering. It's more when he has to think about what he's going to say and how much stress there is to get it out. |
True, and I'm not even sure if Fernando does cranial sacral. But just getting adjusted really helped my son. We used to go to a more expensive chiro who did do cranial sacral, but she is much more expensive and OP wanted cheap or free.
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| Posted: Thu, Dec 29 2011, 6:58 pm Post subject: re: Stuttering |
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| thank you so much for all replys...u have been helpful!
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| Posted: Thu, Dec 29 2011, 8:51 pm Post subject: re: Stuttering |
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I am a speech therapist and have taken some courses by Phil Schneider. He really is a stuttering maven, and is a wonderful, frum individual. The typical school speech therapist may not specialize in stuttering/fluency disorders, and may not be sufficient. Even if you cannot travel to Phil Schneider, it is worth contacting him. He may have therapists that he has trained, and can just be a good reference. He also has some documentary films that talk about stuttering. I found them very interesting.
You mentioned that no one else in the family stutters. Although it is possible, it is very uncommon. I am wondering if maybe your son has a word recall issue-and does not really stutter. Did he have a real fluency evaluation? Does he stutter on whole words (prolongation on an entire word), or part-words (like bi bi bi bicycle)?
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| Posted: Thu, Dec 29 2011, 8:56 pm Post subject: Re: re: Stuttering |
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| amother wrote: | I am a speech therapist and have taken some courses by Phil Schneider. He really is a stuttering maven, and is a wonderful, frum individual. The typical school speech therapist may not specialize in stuttering/fluency disorders, and may not be sufficient. Even if you cannot travel to Phil Schneider, it is worth contacting him. He may have therapists that he has trained, and can just be a good reference. He also has some documentary films that talk about stuttering. I found them very interesting.
You mentioned that no one else in the family stutters. Although it is possible, it is very uncommon. I am wondering if maybe your son has a word recall issue-and does not really stutter. Did he have a real fluency evaluation? Does he stutter on whole words (prolongation on an entire word), or part-words (like bi bi bi bicycle)? |
My child (not the OP) does both depending... Sometimes he repeats whole words. He has a language processing disorder (receptive, expressive, and articulation).
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| if stuttering is not in the fam, check for undetected strep. are you familiar with PANDAS? stuttering can sometimes be a symptom. you still would treat the symptom, but eliminating the strep would def help if this was the problem.
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OP, how long has the stuttering been going on? If it started in the past few months, it is likely to go away on its own. My dd used to stutter terribly, too. It went on for months, and she also got so frustrated, she stopped talking unless it was important. Her speech therapist insisted that we should ignore it. I started to have my doubts after a couple of months, since it was not improving, but then it suddenly went away on its own.
I am not an expert on this, but I just feel like you should know that acknowledging the stutter could do more harm than good, so you should make sure you and the speech therapist are doing the best technique for your child before you start trying things out.
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| Posted: Fri, Dec 30 2011, 12:21 am Post subject: Re: re: Stuttering |
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| amother wrote: | | if stuttering is not in the fam, check for undetected strep. are you familiar with PANDAS? stuttering can sometimes be a symptom. you still would treat the symptom, but eliminating the strep would def help if this was the problem. |
That is a fascinatingly beautiful idea that has escaped me. My oldest ds has PANDAS - but this is a different child. I will be on the lookout for patterns.
Thanks for the heads-up/reality check.
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| Posted: Fri, Dec 30 2011, 12:34 am Post subject: re: Stuttering |
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My daughter had a bad stuttering problem for years. We never ever mentioned it or took her for help. I only recall once saying to her that she should try to think what she's going to say before she says it. Otherwise, zilch. Stuttering can get alot worse if you make the child self-conscious. Ignore it unless she/he's a teenager.
I forgot to mention the most important part, the stuttering is completely gone BH".
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| Posted: Fri, Dec 30 2011, 1:11 am Post subject: re: Stuttering |
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| my son was a late talker...he has had therapy since he was a yr and half...he also has ADHD diagnosed a yr ago. He stutters all over the place, beginning of sentences ...in the middle... but usually at beginning of words. I have heard ignore it but he's a very smart boy and knows that he has a problem to the point he cries. Im just trying to find a way to protect my child from pain !
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| 5qtkids wrote: | | my son was a late talker...he has had therapy since he was a yr and half...he also has ADHD diagnosed a yr ago. He stutters all over the place, beginning of sentences ...in the middle... but usually at beginning of words. I have heard ignore it but he's a very smart boy and knows that he has a problem to the point he cries. Im just trying to find a way to protect my child from pain ! |
Why was he having therapy at 1 year old? My daughter knew very well that she had a problem but that she was perfectly acceptable to us because we didn't talk about it at ALL. It's like a fat person, do they really need you to tell them that they should eat less or go on a diet, and I'm sure they're in pain too.
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