While you may have come across several children who stammer during their speech, you may actually wonder about the reason behind a few adults stammering too. However, the fact is that some children, who cannot overcome this speech disorder during their childhood and teenage, may also go on stammering when they become adults. Still, there are cases where adults start stammering later while they had no such problem during their childhood.
Many parents worry about their kids stammering and begin to take it seriously right from the beginning, hurting the child’s self esteem. What needs to be understood is that stammering is quite common up to five years of age and disappears by the time a child reaches 6th year of her life and hence is considered a normal phase of speech development among children. Only 5% of kids develop stammering as dysfluency – problem in the flow of speech.
