Risk Factors & Signs
These risk factors may affect a child:
- family history of stuttering
- speech/language difficulty
- cycles of stuttering are longer than cycles of fluency
- stuttering has continued for over six months
Signs of Potential Stuttering include:
- part word repetitions (ta-ta-ta-table)
- Schwa vowel usage (“uh”)
- raising voice pitch and volume tremors
- prolongations of words or syllables
- struggle and tension when speaking
- avoidance of speaking situations
- consistent difficulty with certain sounds
- no speaking because it is too hard
- fragmented or disrupted speech
- loss of eye contact and/or head, arm and body movements
- awareness of stuttering
