3.9 yrs old kid stuttering

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My Son 3.9 yrs has been stuttering for last 4 months. Even though he was a late speaker once he started going preshool his vocabulary was improving. Suddenly one day he started stuttering.It is coming and going without any clue. It is really heartbreaking for me to see the blocks and prolongations in his speech. Anybody has this experience with your toddlers ?

Yes! At that exact age - the advice we got was that kids brains are often work so quickly that they can't get the thoughts out clearly so :

Don't interrupt them
Don't try to finish their sentences to get what they're saying out quicker
Let them finish what they are saying in their own time even if it takes ages
Once they've said what they wanted to say you repeat the sentence back to them at normal speed - so if they say ' Can we go to the park to play' but stutter and stammer you repeat back at normal speed " you want to go to the park to play? Okay we can do that'

And you keep doing that, and try not to worry too much because it's very common. It took our DS about 4-5 months to improve once we started doing this.

And it's important to let other family members and carers know this technique, and keep it all no fuss, casual so as not to create anxiety for your DS which will make it worse.

Good luck.

Thank you Cultoffortnite for your valid advice. Infact my concern is, DS is facing issue with his familiar words also. Is it so ?