thanks guys. it didnt feel right to be correcting her so i've stopped doing it. i like the idea of asking her to say it agian because i didnt understand here. she's gotten worse this week since we started paying attention to it and had gone very quiet.....

she is a real chatterbox normally (not in crowds more one to one) and also spoke really well early on, and has a great vocabulary now...i am in a real panic now that i've done the wrong thing correcting her and made her worse!  going to ask for her to be referred tomorrow via the nursery and ask for a tel number so i can speak to someone about it....

dd went through a massive phase of this and she is now 5 and she still sometimes does it, she does not have a stammer but it is just that she has so much in her head that she wants to say and she is in such a rush to say it that she starts to literally fall over her words, also I think in her head she understands exactly what she wants to say but then sometimes she cant think of the actual words she wants to use so she stars stumbling, I find if I stop her and ask her to slow down and start again but talk slowly that she is fine.

She was a very early talker and is a total and utter chatterbox, and I do think that can be quiet common in early talkers. x

Hi, i would def ring and get an appointment with a speech therpist. my son is 2 and half and started stammering about 4 months so, i went to my doc and hv about this any was told to wait 6 months, but they didn't even want to hear my son talk so they didn't know what he was like. so i rang my speech therpist myself and so glad i did as my son got an appointment within a month and we had out second appointment yesterday. theya re really helpful and give you tips to help your little one. but as my son is still young there is only so much they can do at the moment so we have little exersise to do then go back in another 6 months.

check out the british stammering website they are really helpful too. also with speech therpy children with stammers/stuttering get pushed to the front of the list.

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Hi, Sorry if it was my post that confused you!!! I was also told just to ignore (sp) it. Not to even mention it, just to let them take as long as they need to get the words out and not let your lo know that it is concerning you.Hope you can get an appointment, fingers crossed!!!

the link would be really usefull thanks.  i'm confused now as i am getting conflicting info!  will defo get her referred too....6mth waiting list round here so better safe than sorry

thanks

thanks so much for your replies...dd1 has just changed nurseries so it may be something to do with that..for the other poster who is experiencing the same..my dh found a lot of info about disfluency/pseudostuttering on the web last night so I'll find the link for you..basically, as much as possible try not to make a big deal of it, don't correct them, don't tell them to slow down altho do make it clear to them that you have all the time in the world for them to tell you something, don't finish their sentances for them etc.  if it goes on more than 5-6 months and if there is stuttering in the family (as previous poster mentioned) then you should seek help but it is quite common for children to go thru this between the ages of 2.5-5 yrs with stuttering coming and going over periods of time.  What my dd does is repeat the first part of a word over and over...anyway, If it goes on much longer I am going to speak to the HV as the waiting list for a speech therapist is long here and I'd rather be on that list sooner rather than later in case we do need it.  I will post the link for the article about it, is is quite interesting reading.. thanks again!

That's interesting that they said not to do anything about it unless there is a stammer i the family....there isn't in ours. the SENCO worker just said to get her to stop, calm down take a breath then say it again.  she can do it but then the next word she does it again!  i think i will speak to a therapist about it like you say to put my mind at rest.  i dont know wether to ignore it or do what i'm doing!!

Hi, my ds had started to do something similar, he would have real trouble getting his words out and would end up saying 'mmmmmmmm mummy' it was like that with loads of different words. I have posted a thread about it before and one lady who replied was a speech and lanuage therapist, her advice was to not do anything about it unless someone in the family stutters, well my dh does so we were really concerned and it had been going on for around 6 months, he also had done this previously for around 4 months then it suddenly stopped but obviously started again.  I mentioned it to his pre school teachers who also noticed it and referred us to speech therapy.  Within 2 weeks we had a letter asking us to go to a screening test, at these tests they then decide if your lo will need speech therapy. Anyway, the week we got the letter my ds stopped. Couldnt believe it, i contact speech therapy and they advised that we book a screening just to get him checked, apparently they give workbooks out to advice how to deal with stutters etc so we are booked in for mid August.(could have had an appointment sooner, it was my choice to wait that long). Not sure if this is how it works everywhere around the country but it might be worth ringing speech and lanuage therapists to have a chat - may put your mind at rest??? HTH sorry its long!!!!

i am on here looking for info for exactly this problem.  my daughter will be 3 in sept and has always been quite advanced with her talking but the last month or so has gotten worse with this starting of her sentences.....like the last post she repeats her first word over and over....so annoying!!! we mentioned it to the SENCO worker at her nursery and she said it's not a stammer as that tends to be mid sentence that it's more disfluency....  she offered to refer us to a speech therapist but we decided we wanted to try to deal with it ourselves first.  basically she said the same as the last post that she's trying to get the words out too quickly and her brain is working too fast for her mouth!  when she starts to do it now i just say her name and say 'it's not mu-mu-mu-mu-mum, it's mum' and she stops takes a breath and says 'mum' but it's going to be a lot of reminding her i htink.  i must admit i thought she was doing it as a bit of a habit at first because it's gotten much worse lately (as habits can do!) but the nursery did reassure me it's common and just her age....

i'm going to leave it another week and then look to refer her anyway i think as it's a 6mth waiting list and i would kick myself if she got worse. i was wondering though if anyone knew a bit more about it and if i am handling it right.  also, can it develop into something worse?  can't seem to find anything on the net about it other than full blown stammering/stuttering info.

My DS does this aswell sometimes. I know exactly what he is trying to come out with but he either stutters or repeats the first word over and over until he gets the whole sentance out.

I think it's just a case of his brain working faster than his mouth at this stage x

Haven't experienced this personally but my best mate's little boy has a slight stammer because he is trying to talk so quickly!!! Could this be it? Have you asked if she is stammering at nursery? x

has anyone else experienced this?  she is quite a chatterbox at home but doesn't speak much in unfamiliar company...I think her speech has been about average for her age up to now - she does pronounce some letters wrong but I think this is common?  Anyway in the last week or so she has been stammering a lot - she has never done this before but the last 2 days she's doing it ALL the time - we have mostly ignored it except a couple of times where she's been so bad with it that we've had to calm her down and get her to speak slowly...I'll be honest it is freaking us out altho we're trying not to show her of course..my sister wonders if she's copying someone from nursery but surely it would be very hard for her to remember to do it all the time?   should I be worried?