Any SaLTs about - toddler stammer

[DinosaurPyjamas]

Would you mind giving me some advice please?
My 26 month old has had pretty good speech for a while (talking in sentences etc), but she's suddenly developed a stammer and is now struggling to get out words that she definitely knows 😔 This has coincided with moving up a room at nursery - the new room leader talks incredibly fast (even I struggle to keep up) and has a slightly brusque demeanor which my daughter isn't used to (she's really nice, but quite different to the very sweet girls working in the baby room). Could the stammer be linked? I'm going to call the nursery today but I'm not totally sure what to say. Or do you have any other advice as to how to help her? Thank you

Bump

My DS suddenly developed a stammer at about 3. It went on for a bit - only on certain words - but had stopped by the time the SALT referral came through. I got told it was ‘just’ developmental and he had so many thoughts / feelings that his words couldn’t keep up. No idea if that’s scientific and I was worried for a while but, thankfully, it passed.

Thank you that's helpful. We've self referred to the salt team for our area so 🤞that comes through soon (or it sorts itself out).

It's quite scary hearing her struggle so much 😔

I work in a pre school attached to a school with 3/4 year olds. It’s incredibly common at this age as they have so much to say but their brain can’t work as fast as they are trying to make it therefore that’s when the stammer happens. 9/10 of them grow out of it before they start school.

Hi, our lb had a stutter that came and went (for brief periods) between 2 and 4. It was always followed by a giant leap in putting his words together and forming more complex sentences.
Awful to watch though.
I researched it and it's quite common. Hopefully that for your lo too.

Childminder here- really common, it's a developmental stage whe they have lots more words and can't speak quickly enough to get everything out. It will settle down usually within 3-6 months.

Those saying it's normal/common etc, is it still normal if they are stammering over sentences they've said hundreds of times before with no problem? It just seems really weird 😕

Our child started stammering at about 3. It wasn't too bad, then she had to wear an eye patch and it got really really bad. Stopped wearing eye patch and stammer got better. However it's never gone away. She's 6 now, and although she was referred to SLT a year ago, they haven't given her an assessment, just want to give her therapy to improve her confidence and tell us that it's okay to have a stammer (the Parent Child Interaction method promoted by the Palin institute). Well our child is quite confident, doesn't seem particularly aware of her stammer and it doesn't really bother us.

We've only found 1 SLT who believes she can cure a stammer, and she will only take us on if she is able to post videos of our child online, which is an obvious red light to us from a safeguarding point of view. The rest of the SLTs say there's no way to cure a stammer, it will either get better or it won't and all they can do is give the child therapy to give them confidence to deal with a stammer.

Unbelievably frustrating.