Parents often come to me and ask why their children stutter. Is stuttering a disease? What should I do about stuttering? According to the most concerned topics of parents, I summarized and organized the “ten questions of stuttering”, I hope it can help you. 1.Why do children stutter? The causes of stuttering in children are unknown. It may be due to genetic factors, anxiety and stress (such as family life events), or neurological dysfunction due to physical illness, or stuttering due to imitation, and there are also studies that suggest that it is related to the development of the neuromuscular system in children and the uncoordinated function of the articulatory muscles. 2.Does stuttering occur more in boys or girls? The probability of stuttering is higher in boys than in girls. 3.Do all children who are just starting to speak stutter? During the explosive period of language development from 2 to 3 years old, transient stuttering is more common. The main reason is that children master less vocabulary, but think quickly, and at the same time, the articulatory organs are still immature, and the nervous system has insufficient control over the articulatory muscles and coordination between the muscles. 4.Will children who stutter still stutter when they grow up? Most children stuttering symptoms will gradually improve and disappear with age, but there are very few children who continue to stutter into adulthood. 5.Does discord among family members aggravate the child’s stuttering problem? Yes, psychology is a very important factor in the cause of children’s stuttering. If the family environment causes excitement, anxiety, tension, fear or significant emotional trauma, it may trigger or aggravate the stuttering phenomenon. 6.How old is it appropriate to treat a child who stutters? From the time stuttering appears, you should seek medical attention in a timely manner, first to exclude neuropsychiatric and other diseases such as Tourette’s Syndrome, and then to be given age-appropriate training or treatment recommendations by a professional doctor. 7.Is unclear speech a defect in the tongue? The short tongue tie is only one of the more common causes of unclear speech composition. Other problems in the oral cavity, nasal cavity, eustachian tube, articulatory muscles and other aspects involved in composition and resonance, or hearing problems, can cause unclear speech. 8.Is it necessary to cut down the tongue tie to prevent unclear speech? It is not possible to remove the tongue tie completely, but the doctor should judge whether it is necessary to do lingual ligature release or lengthening according to the degree of short tongue tie and the correlation of unclear speech, not all cases need surgery, some tongue ties are a little short, through the acquired speech training can also be normal pronunciation. 9.Is there a problem with the child’s IQ if he/she is late in speaking? There are many reasons for late speech, such as mental retardation (mental retardation), autism, social disorder, delayed language development, and clinically, we can see that many children are late in speaking due to language deprivation (such as parents and children rarely communicate) or due to genetic factors. 10.Is late speech related to hearing? Hearing problems may be present if the child does not speak, speaks late or has unclear speech, so hearing tests are required at the first visit for children with speech disorders.