My daughter "M" is 3.5. She has been stuttering now for about 9 months. My oldest daughter went through it too, but she grew out of it within about 6 months. M will try to say something and it might take 2 minutes to get out one sentence. She will stutter on a single word and then sometimes have to start the sentence over a few times. For example, "Mommy, I saw saw saw saw saw saw, Mommy, I saw, I saw, I saw a turtle outside." She is not frustrated with the stuttering at this point.
She also has a number of sound substitutions in words, like "sirsty" for thirsty, "someping" for something, says w for the sound of r, etc. I know that some of those are developmental, but then I think that if she has all these things working together that maybe she needs to be evaluated. I don't know if I should keep waiting it out or go ahead and get a referral. She has a very full vocabulary and we can understand her and strangers can usually understand her, but do I keep waiting?
2007-05-06
18:02:25
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Jennifer
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