Cause Of Stuttering

When a person has a stutter or a parent realises that their
child is developing a stutter they often want to find out the
cause. So what causes a stutter?

The answer is many things can trigger someone starting to
stutter. These are some of them: It can be a traumatic event It
can run in the family People may copy a friend at school who has
a stutter and then it sticks An over aggressive relative

Last year I had a female client who told me how she had
developed a stutter. She was fluent until the age of twenty
four. At this age she became pregnant for the first time, she
was very happy and excited about the prospects about becoming a
mother.

She was apprehensive about the birth and her friends had been
winding her up telling her how painful the experience is. She
knew that they were only teasing and tried to keep relaxed.

The day of the birth arrived and unfortunately the delivery was
particulary hard and she was extremely shocked about how bad it
actually was. After the birth of the baby, who was a healthy boy
she developed the stutter.

Not all people who stutter have it from an early age, another
one of my clients was fluent until the age of nineteen. At this
age he had a car crash and this was the trigger to him starting
to stutter.