Stuttering Persuasive Speech Outline

Purpose Statement:
The purpose of this text is to inform parents/concerned individuals about stuttering and provide useful information concerning young children who stutter. Strategies to induce fluency are given, and situations that induce disfluency are given.
Key Words:
• Schwa vowel
• Prolongations
• Tremors
• Disfluencies
• Emotional club
• Demean
• Communicative time pressure
• Insertions
• Negative connotation
• Vocal inflections

Key Statements:
• All children repeat words and phrases, hesitate often, and have occasional difficulty with the smooth flow of words, but some have more trouble than others and for longer periods of time.
• It seems that children stutter for many reasons which vary from one child to next and that stuttering sometimes continues when early causes are no longer in effect.
• You have not caused your child to stutter, but certainly there are steps you can
They range in intelligence just as the rest of us do.
• We know that the frequency and severity of stuttering usually varies with time and circumstance.
• Help your child by making talking an enjoyable experience.
• Your child’s misbehaviors can be handled in such a way that other problems do not develop. Learning ways to manage her feelings and actions in positive ways is important.
• The way you speak says more to your child than all of your verbal instructions to “slow down,” or “relax,” or “speed up.”
• Another important way you can help your child is by accepting his disfluencies.
• There is a subtle but crucial difference between “he is a stutter,” and “he stutters.”
• Any questions about whether or not something is the matter with him should be answered by “no,” and followed by a fuller description of what is happening when he stutters, such as, “you held onto that sound a little to long” or “that was a little bumpy.”
• Avoid increasing your child’s fear by overprotection.