Teacher Strategies in Handling Stuttering Children at PAUD al Fathur Rochman

Abstract

Language development in children is a process of understanding and pronouncing words. Early Childhood needs to be stimulated so that their language development continues to increase. Stuttering is a condition where a child has problems with speech inconsistency in the form of word pronunciation and sentence flow, whether it occurs in childhood or in adults. This research aims to see teachers' strategies for dealing with children who have obstacles in mentioning vocabulary. This research method uses descriptive qualitative. The research sample is one of the students from KB Al Fathur Rochman. The research results are related to the teacher's strategy in optimizing the language development of children who experience stuttering so that the child can communicate better than before. The teacher asks the child to speak with beats. slowly and slowly, like taking a breath, speaking slowly one word at a time, the child's mother begins to be able to control her speech so that the child can be more able to speak well and be easily understood by the person she is talking to.