Any other parents of toddlers been through this?

Question

My 18 month daughter has been talking since she was about 10 months. In the past month she has started putting words together to make small sentences. Since she has started doing that, all of a sudden she is stuttering a lot and not just when she is putting words together. She used to be able to say bye-bye just fine (since 11 months) but now every time she tries to say it she stumbles on the first b a couple times before she can get it out. She does it with a lot of her words that she has been saying for months now. I have read on the internet about this but most of the toddlers that have it seem to be quite a bit older than 18 months when it starts. Should I be worried or am I just an overprotective mom??? Thanks for all your help! :o)

Answer 1

Check out the web site for The Stuttering Foundation at www.stutteringhelp.org. They have a chart that will help you determine if and when she needs speech therapy. They also have tips of things to do at home to help. There are online videos and downloadable brochures that are helpful, too. If you still have questions, call the Foundation.

Answer 2

I think that your daughter is very talented and gifted! Now that she is starting to learn so many new ways to put her words together, she gets unsure of the way things she knew sounded before. Her memory is expanding and it's tough for such a little mind to remember all the new words she's learning, plus the ones she knew before. My daughter did this as well around the same age. Just give her time and it will all be permanently imprinted in her memory.

Answer 3

She's fine. Her brain is going faster than her mouth can form the words. She probably wants to make bigger sentences too. My daughter is 16 months and sometimes does that.
My son still slurs words together and I can't always understand him. He is 2 1/2.

Just repeat the word to her once after she stumbles. It seems to help my daughter. Kindof a mocking game for her. We repeat until she repeats back at us.

Answer 4

My son went through a stuttering phase at about that same age. My mom's a speech pathologist and she's said its perfectly normal, and not an indication that they will continue to stutter. She was right, he's now almost four and its been nearly a year and a half or more since he's stuttered.

Answer 5

Hi there my son is 3 next month and he started doing this about a month ago, i think it is maybe just a phase i don't think its anything to worry about but maybe to put your mind at ease speak to a doctor they could put you onto a speech therapist? My daughter went to one when she was younger cause she was a bit slow with her talking and they were great and shes totally fine now.

Answer 6

My grand son went through this first try to make sure she is speaking slow enough, you know at that age they are always in a hurry... (so much to do and so little time in their busy little toddler world) . Dont laugh at her or yell but say hey sweetie can you say it again and lets do it a little slower. My grand son came out of it.

Answer 7

My sons one and he merely have been given out of the hitting section, i think of two twelve months olds do bypass via somewhat like that too, a minimum of my aunts son does. All i'm able to think of is to maintain doing what your doing, and don't supply in, be consistent and punish him every time he screams or hits. finally he will positioned 2 and a pair of mutually and understand that he's being punished for hitting and screaming. It takes time to interrupt a habit like that, and on occasion my son nonetheless does it. sure I even have cried previously while he hit me, I had glasses on and he hit me and smashed my glasses into my face or perhaps decrease me a touch, so I handed him to my fiance and went and cried. lol. yet merely attempt to be consistent, do in no way enable him get away with it, and finally he will learn. i think of his anger issues will shrink while he starts conversing properly... it rather is tough on infants that age because of the fact they do no longer recognize a thank you to enable you recognize issues, the only ingredient they could think of to do is throw a tantrum.

Answer 8

I would talk to her doctor about it to see if it will go away when she gets older. Try to get her to slow down when she speaks that may help. I know when I try to talk fast or talk before I think I stumble with words and pronunciations.

Answer 9

I had almost the exact same thing with one of my sons - took him to speech therapy, etc etc - sometimes, their mids are moving too fast for their mouths. The speech therapist said 90% grow out of the stammering, so just keep an eye on it and relax.

Answer 10

My daughter did this too. She was older, but it was almost as if her brain wasn't keeping up with her mouth. I asked her preschool teacher and she said it is very common. I wouldn't worry about it. I would tell my daughter to slow down, think about what she wanted to say and then tell me. This seemed to work.