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DD stuttered the first time this month at her speech therapy evaluation and the stammering started this month too. Is stammering when they stop in mid sentence and are thinking of a word? That is what she does. I want to think of it as a good sign, the stammering...the wheels are turning in there. Her stutting isn't everyday, though. My sister stutters sometimes now and got help as a child. Hell, i even stutter sometimes when I get nervous. My cousin stutters all the time and he was the most popular guy in high school and college....he is so awesome, he acts like it doesn't bother him at all and has a great sense of humor. I don't know how he does it. I ment to ask the speech therapist about my daughter's occassional stuttering but we enough problems just getting her to talk and make eye contact but it's on my list question.
Both my kids repeat short words and end sounds. For my youngest NT(?) child it started right before age 5. The specialists we've talked to give us the impression that it's a developmental stutter.
Here's a "checklist for referral" from the Stuttering Foundation, which tells you what to look for to determine if it's a normal developmental stutter, a mild stutter, or a severe stutter that should be referred as soon as possible.
http://www.stutteringhelp.org/Default.aspx?tabid=99
Here's one interesting thing they didn't mention but which I found out on a couple other websites:
If it's developmental stuttering, the child will presumably not stutter while singing, whispering or reciting a memorized passage.
It seems like it's also worthwhile to note where the breaks occur (in the beginning, middle or end of the word) and on what kinds of words the breaks occur. If it's a developmental stuttering, the breaks will supposedly be on content words (nouns, verbs, etc) rather than function words (conjunctions, prepositions).
Jake started a pretty severe stutter a few months ago. He shows all the classic signs for having a true stutter. He repeats the first sound of a sentence or phrase, often more than 6 or 7 times. He's even cried at times because the words were 'stuck'.
He's actually gone from saying "I want a drink" to "me want a drink", because he gets stuck on the word I so often (and ends up saying it like 10 times, with blocks, before being able to finish the sentence). He told me that "there's black hair in his mouth when the words are hard". We've been doing a lot of the suggestions the SLP recommended, and it has seemed to decrease now. He was stuttering a majority of his speaking, and now its less. He does it more often when tired, or anxious though.Jasper had a pronounced stutter at around 2.5--it went away as he
developed.
He stammers a lot now when starting sentences--it's like his mouth is trying
to catch up with his brain.
I do think "transitory" stuttering is related to language development, for sure
(that is just my opinion, in no way backed by any scientific learnin' on my
part
)My NT daughter started stuttering right after she turned 3. I was told to wait it out a bit to see if it was just developmental stuttering. It's been 6 months and she is doing better. However, she has spells of regression that are pretty severe. I'm tracking her stuttering and will hand it over to the SLP who will do the evaluation of her once school starts. I stuttered around age 3 - it was stress-induced. My parents decided it would be cute to time me while I did a puzzle. Apparently, I was pretty fast.
Anyway, I started to stutter, so they stopped doing the timing thing (they would even do this in front of guests!) and I stopped stuttering shortly thereafter.
Ds started stuttering last August - right before school started. It abated almost completely by Christmas. We were told to basically ignore it and just wait for him to get through it. We have noticed small recurrences every once in a while - and it is often around times of stress. So, we are due for another one since school will be starting in a month!
I would definitely talk to a speech pathologist about it. They can apparently predict if this is really a true problem, or a passing phase (at least that's what the one at ds' school told me). And they can give you LOTS of helpful hints as well!
Well I was told it was a developmental stammer, at 2 ...
I will let her school SLP know it is flaring up, again. She goes back in less than 2 weeks! And those BEAUTIFUL L's that Kathy got her doing, right before school let out ... are almsot gone. Need to get em BACK!
Hi, how many of you have kids who really, seriously stammer or stutter? Adn at what age?
T is going through the longest and most severe phase of this, yet. She has always done a little, off and on -- but mostly off. Now this summer it is really protracted. We know how to repsond of course, loads of practice -- but I am curious about it.
Hopefully it is due to an impending language explosion ...
My NT nephew stuttered around five or so - was just a phase for him, but it persisted for a while. My brother has since he was 6 yrs old and does it once in a while as an adult, he's 22 yrs old. He had speech therapy and LD classes in school. He refuses to get checked for auditory processing disorders and sensory but he does have a college degree.
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