Started stuttering/stammering 2.5yrs

[feekerry]

Dd is 2.5yrs. Her speech and understanding has always been excellent. She talks constantly about everything! The last week or so she has starting stuttering. Mainly at the beginning of saying something. She will say I,i,i,I over and over again and gets visibly annoyed. The other day she repeated the first word of her sentence over and over then burst out crying as was getting so angry. Is this just a phase or something to look into???

It's very common at this age and my dd did exactly the same. It often got worse as she had a leap in vocabulary. It came and went but didn't fully stop happening until she was 6. Neither her pre school or school were concerned.

Thanks. Makes sense!

DS is approaching 2.5 and although I don't think his language is probably as advanced as your DD's, he can generally communicate ok. However I've noticed him stumbling over his speech a bit more lately - it's like he struggles to form the words correctly as his brain comes out with them, and makes several attempts to say certain bits of the sentence.
So clearly I don't know any better than you do! but I think I have read before that it can be common at this age - I wonder if it is a brain vs physical speech development mismatch thing?

My dd2 has been doing this a lot this year (just about to turn 3) .
Like you, I was worried about it too but she is doing it less now. She pretty much has the same vocab as her sister (5) and I think honestly when they talk so much, they just can't control it, especially when excited.
I'm not worried anymore as she is definitely doing it less now, I think it's just a stage through which our very intelligent, far too brilliant kids go through!!

Yikes this happened to me as a kid and was mortifying, I eventually got over it by about mid teens and put it down to anxiety and shyness. Another boy at dds school had an awful stammer and was subsequently found to have Aspergers (not suggesting something like this is behind it here) I woudn't fret too much at this age, if it continues stressing her out its worth getting advice.

Mt DS2 (2.9) has been doing this a lot. Usually with the word I I I I I I at the beginning of sentences too. I think it's him having lots of thought and good language but still not being fully fluent so having to think of what word to say next. He got himself in a bit of an I, I, I, I frenzy the other day and just stopped and grabbed his little face and said really confused 'I, I, I, I can't talk' but he looked so sweet and innocent whilst looking really concerned haha. I think it's quit common.