The specific causes of stuttering in children are not clear, but many factors work together. Stuttering may be more obvious when children feel tired, excited, uneasy, in a hurry or under other stress conditions. Environmental factors are considered to be important, and children raised by stuttering parents are more likely to stutter than those raised by non-stuttering parents.
Reasons for stuttering:
1. Psychosocial factors: For example, children stutter because of fear, anxiety, anger, etc. In the case of being frightened, severely reprimanded or punished, or suddenly changing the environment, disharmony in family relations, death of parents, sudden strong voice stimulation, etc.
2. Family education factors: Some psychological characteristics of parents can directly affect children. Some parents are either too strict with their children, or too fond of them, lacking proper education, which leads to poor mental development and poor adaptability to life. Once they change their environment or meet strangers, they stutter easily.
3. Imitation: According to some statistics, the stuttering caused by imitators accounts for about 75% of stutterers. Correcting this imitation phenomenon in time can prevent stuttering. If parents don't pay attention to it or don't educate it properly, such as beating and scolding children, it will cause children's fear and anxiety, which will not only aggravate stuttering.
4, emotional instability: neurotic people are prone to fatigue, anger, pessimism, disappointment, fear, etc. if they are slightly stimulated. Often in a frightened environment, it is easy for children to stutter because of psychological abnormality, and people with bad temper are easy to aggravate the degree of stuttering.
5. Genetic factors: the family incidence of stuttering patients can reach 36%~55%, so some people think it is related to genetic factors and may be monogenic. It is also found that left-handed people are more common in stuttering patients and their relatives, and people think that stuttering is related to the dominant side of the brain.
6. Developmental stuttering: Most children start stuttering at the age of 1.5 to 2 years old, mostly because children are exercising their speech and language functions, which is transient.
Many children have been affected by harmful factors during perinatal period or infancy, such as toxemia of pregnancy, bleeding or physical diseases, or stuttering caused by some infectious diseases during development.