Many people dont realize it but stuttering greatly affects the emotional state of a person, especially that of a child. The emotional effects of stuttering on children alone are very much devastating on his or her emotional health. Not only that, stuttering unfavorably affects not just a child’s social skills but his or her communication skills as well.
Because of stuttering, many kids think that making friends and building relationships become very disappointing and sometimes traumatizing. Having to live through stuttering at this stage in a person’s life is very awkward and painful. Friends also don’t come easy for children with stutters according to research kids with a stutter often have to cope up with bullying from peers and classmates.
Studies say that 40 percent of school-aged kids who suffer from stuttering reveal that they been a victim of teasing, bullying, name-calling and worst of all, experienced physical harassment because of their condition. They confess that just because they don’t speak too well, other kids simply dont respect them and dont listen when they try to say something. The tendency of this inability to express...