2 year old stuttering

[millsy]

My ds has just turned two and has always been an advanced talker with a wide vocabulary for his age. Over the last couple of days he has started to stutter his words, I'd say around 60-70% of the time he speaks. It doesn't seem to be only when he is excited but when he is talkng generally too. I am ignoring it at the moment and slowing down my own speech but I can't help worrying that this will continue. Has anyone any experience of this and if so, did it resolve?Please help!

Don't worry - my dd1 did this for a while and it stopped as soon as it started, in fact the day I'd made an appointment about it! I think for early speakers and bright children there comes a point where the brain moves ahead of the mouth. It's very common apparently, but quite disconcerting I know. I think it lasted a few weeks only then disappeared overnight.

dd started stuttering about 3.5 years old. At first I ignored it...I thought she was trying to be funny. Then one day I told her to stop..and she said she couldn't...

I was so upset, but like you i just pretty much ignored it. I asked questions to professionals and they all said she may have picked it up from others in her daycare, stress...and so on...well she is now eight and she is just now getting a hold of the stuttering. SLOW AND EASY SPEECH is what helped her.

It may very well go away i have read that lots and lots of children stutter a bit around that age.

But, kinda pay attention got picked on a good bit. The children weren't not used to her stuttering so when she started it was soooo obvious.

Both DSs did this and grew out of it. A number of their friends went through exactly the same stage too.

same here, I was really worried at the time. DD now 3 and stutter gone, replaced by sentences with long words and speaking Spanish (thanks Dora the Explorer!)

Hi Millsy my DS now nearly 7 starterd stammering at 2.5 and over the years has come and gone (once for a whole year!). He is undergoing speech therapy with something call the Lidcombe Programme and although I am positive that your DS will lose the stammer I think if it continues to worry you over a few months I would definitely seek advice. My local STherapist told me not to worry and it would disappear eventually in the end I had to seek private therapy as just knew in my heart that it was going on too long and was getting more severe. I would just keep an eye on it. My son, although he does stammer it is far less severe than it would have been had we not sought therapy. He was actually beginning to open his mouth and nothing coming out - called blocking.XX

sabella is correct, professionals do day that when they are young it is not a good idea to tell them to slow down and verbally identify to them that there is a problem, just be patient. sometimes with younger children, or even older when someone points out the problem it puts a certain stress on them that will often cause the stuttering to worsen. Stuttering cause sometimes be caused by tension in the vocal area...I think

Then only reason that we had to address my dd is because it continued to an older age, so we needed to teach her how to control it.

My DS2 was same as yours Millsy (very advanced started stuttering badly) Tried all the things Sabella suggests. Went on for few months (started at about 3.5 yrs) Then we went on holiday spent all our time with boys no housework to do etc and stuttering stopped. It was ime because we had more time to listen and he didn't have to compete to get heard. Now he is back to talking non stop constantly and making me want to scream SHUT UP which of course I don't.
Can't win with this parenting lark you know!!!!! Sorry for the waffle and HTH

Thanks everyone for your replies. His stammering seems to have decreased somewhat - 20-30% of the time so I am feeling a bit better but will keep a close eye on him. Thanks for all the tips!