do stuttering parents = stuttering kids?

[roasted]

anyways. i have baby comming next summmer, whcih i quite thrilld about...however I'm quite scared it will devlop the same stuttering problem i have. Do to exposure to my own stutter during its verry early speech devolping years. or passed down genetically

dose anyone have any experince in this particular aria? in terms of using speech therapy as a form of early prevention in toddler years. or if its even possible to do so.

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as it stands Im fluent enuogh for any one off the street to underand me without difficulty, but it takes costant effort and practice for me to stay this way. and I do slip back quite regularly.

[Adrian]

anyways. i have baby comming next summmer, whcih i quite thrilld about...however I'm quite scared it will devlop the same stuttering problem i have. Do to exposure to my own stutter during its verry early speech devolping years. or passed down genetically

dose anyone have any experince in this particular aria? in terms of using speech therapy as a form of early prevention in toddler years. or if its even possible to do so.

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as it stands Im fluent enuogh for any one off the street to underand me without difficulty, but it takes costant effort and practice for me to stay this way. and I do slip back quite regularly.

I believe the professional consensus is that stuttering CAN be passed down genetically. But that it only slightly increases the chances of the child developing a stutter if a parent stutters. The consensus is also that stuttering cannot be caught from hearing another stutter. Remember stuttering is not a speech pattern, it is a breakdown of the speech muscle movements and a child cannot immitate this breakdown.

Anyway, the chances of your child ever stuttering are slim, so don't worry about it and enjoy your baby.

Congrats!

[EddieO]

My parent didn't stutter. My uncle stutters.
I have a 3 year old son. It seems like he pauses a little longer than normal between words. It seems his breathing is off or his muscles might be tightening. He saw a speech therapist about a year ago because he wasn't talking. Now he's talking but his pauses are concerning me.
Eddie

[andrewg818]

I have 2 children; ages "just turned 3" and "almost 5"---They both talk A LOT [ha!]..and neither of them show any signs of stuttering. Even if they did--while we love our children and all want the best for them-- stuttering wouldn't necessarily be a "bad" thing -- my life would have been very different, I realize now, probably for the worse, had I not stuttered.

[emily445455]

Stutters are passed down genetically. I got my stutter from my mother, and she got hers from her father (he must have had a recessive gene, his brother stuttered, not him).

My sister and I stutter, BUT my 2 brothers and my other sister do not. So it CAN be passed down, but not always. In my family 3/5 kids do not stutter. :)

[Bill Hargis]

None of my six children, or my seventeen grandchildren stutter.

[Standingtall]

anyways. i have baby comming next summmer, whcih i quite thrilld about...however I'm quite scared it will devlop the same stuttering problem i have. Do to exposure to my own stutter during its verry early speech devolping years. or passed down genetically

dose anyone have any experince in this particular aria? in terms of using speech therapy as a form of early prevention in toddler years. or if its even possible to do so.

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as it stands Im fluent enuogh for any one off the street to underand me without difficulty, but it takes costant effort and practice for me to stay this way. and I do slip back quite regularly.
I am from Edmonton, anytime you want to meet, send me an IM and we can chat. Congrats!!!

None of my parents stutter, but i do have an uncle on my mother side that does. I have twin girls and they both stutter, but they were born with an cleft lip and palate. I was told their speech development would be delayed because of this problem. They seem to have more of a problem with me, because i am the authority figure, but they don't seem to care at the moment when they playing with others. They are so happy little girls. To have a stutter is not a good enough reason to take one self out of the gene pool.

[bignick]

Firstly congratulations on the pending arrival,

it will change your life.

I had the same fear when my first was born 5 years ago and so far he doesnt appear to have one.
I will have to see how my 13 week old boy gets on when he starts to talk.

I agree with Gene on his comments about taking yourself out of the gene pool.

Nick