2 year old is stammering

[BethanyGilbert]

Is she likely to grow out of it? She’s only been doing it for a few months but I feel like it is getting worse. She’s a really good talker and is a very confident little girl.

My DD did this at age 2-3. Although we were referred to a speech therapy assessment through the HV, looking back it was obviously still early days of being able to talk and more like she was still exploring sounds and how to make them. As her vocabulary and confidence with speaking grew she then grew out of the stammer.

Both mine had stammers at this age - a speech therapist told us that sometimes bright, early talkers with good vocabularies have a phase of this. She explained it as almost like having a ‘bottleneck’ of so much information coming from the brain into an immature delivery system! They are trying to get all these words out but they aren’t quite ready developmentally.

I once saw one of my kids trying to tell another 3 year old something but he took so long stuck on one syllable/word that the other kid wandered off, he looked so bereft it broke my heart!

We were told to not stress or make a big deal out of it, to give him time to get to what he is trying to say and it would sort itself out - in both cases it did before they started school never to happen again. It could be that?

Not a big deal at that age. Just ignore it and it’ll likely disappear.

When DD developed a stammer age 2 we went to see a paediatric speech therapist who taught us some techniques to use with her on a daily basis. It cleared up in a couple of months I think.

I asked my mum for help (also a speech therapist but specialised in a different age group) and she strongly suggested we see a speech therapist who specialised in children rather than just leaving it.

My wee guy does this. He's processing the words I think.

I had a stammer at around a similar age but it was gone by the time I started school.

My DNs both stammer and their mum is a paediatric speech therapist (by coincidence).

Get a referral early to an SLT as the quicker the linguistic 'pathways' are altered, the milder the stammer will often be.

Lots of children stammer for short whiles and it eventually just clears up as their brains develop.