Huck stutters. I don't know if I've ever mentioned this before, but he started when he was about 3, and I kept thinking he would grow out of it. Now, at 8 1/2 and one year of speech therapy, it's worse than ever. He will go through stages. Sometimes he will concentrate on what he is saying and will hardly stutter at all. But when he is really tired, or, conversely, really relaxed, he stutters so much that it makes my eye twitch. Don't get me wrong, he is smart as a whip. He was tested for the gifted program a couple of months ago and his IQ is in the 130s. I think part of his stuttering has to do with his intelligence. He has told me himself that sometimes "m-m-m-m-m-m-m-my brain gets ah-h-h-head of my tongue".
Believe me, I am not making fun of my boy. But it is sometimes difficult to listen to him without trying to correct him or tell him to slow down and take his time (which only makes him feel self conscious and makes the stuttering worse) Thumbelina has no such qualms. She will say "Y-y-y-y-ou are driving me c-c-crazy with your st-st-st-st-uttering". She is laughing while she says it, and he laughs his head off with her; brother and sister and all that. She is the only one who can joke with him about it and not make him feel self conscious, but still...
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If it makes you feel any better, I've never noticed. I bet his brain is just running faster than his mouth can move. I sometimes get tongue tied for that very reason, myself.
I went throught a phase as a child with stuttering. The doctor said it would clear itself up and it did. I remember adults being more cruel about it than the kids. I'm glad Huck seems ok with it. And no, I don't think you ever mentioned.
I know how he feels. My brain goes too fast for my mouth, especially when I get excited. Instead of stuttering, I go "mush-mouthed" and I kind of trip over words, like they come out too fast to be coherent. Our IQs are similar too ;)
I would bet that once he gets better mental control (which comes with age and experience), the stuttering will subside. It seems like his tongue is tripping his brain to give it time to work and get out those words.
My three most brilliant professors stuttered, one to the point of supreme awkwardness in seminar. AND they're hands down my favorites.
And so did my adopted aunt. My mom and her three siblings cured her by lovingly turning on her and saying in unison, "hyulk! hyulk! hyulk!" every time she stuttered. *sigh* Kids. That says soooo much about my mom's family ...
Huck's gonna be fine.
Go to innertalk.com and do a search on stutter.
You can play the CD while he sleeps and it may help him to get over it.
Do you remember that I stuttered, too?
I'm tagging you for a Meme! :)
Ahhh, what your Sweet Bruver said. Maybe its an inherited thing and he will out grow it also, like Bruver did.
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