Usually, when a family with a child suffering from primary stuttering turns to public facilities, they are told that it is necessary to wait until school age to be able to intervene. In fact, until recently, it was necessary to wait until the child was 6 years old to be taken in by voice professionals to receive the first treatments. Until that time, families and their children had to be patient and suffer in silence.

For some years, this has no longer been the case. Through the cutting-edge research conducted by Dr. Antonio Bitetti, psychologist-psychotherapist, researcher in the field of stuttering and communication psychology, even small or very small children can peacefully overcome their discomfort by taking advantage of the specific treatments he was the first to introduce in Italy and Europe.

The Integrated Approach aimed at treating so-called primary stuttering, which represents an initial phase of stuttering, is treated to avoid the phenomenon of chronicity of the disorder and to avoid useless and sterile suffering, both in the child who directly experiences the discomfort and in the family, a passive spectator of the situation.

The studies conducted by Dr. Antonio Bitetti represent an absolute novelty in the current panorama of research on childhood stuttering and will be presented at the next Congress of the American Psychological Association, of which he has been a member for several years. This therapy is specifically aimed at parents and not at the disfluent child, who receives the benefit of the therapeutic approach, directly from them, guided in the therapeutic path by Dr. Bitetti.

The results so far are nothing short of exceptional and all the cases treated underline the value of this type of intervention.