Early intervention is important with speech difficulties, and there is a lot that childcarers can do to help children who stammer, as Maggie Jones explains
Stammering, or stuttering, is much more common in young children than people think. Five per cent of pre-school children stammer, which means that, at any one time, 188,000 children aged under five in the UK are affected. For the majority, stammering will be a phase they grow out of, but about a quarter to a third are at risk of developing a stammer in adult life unless they receive speech and language therapy in their early years.
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