Sudden onset stammering

[nyorksdad]

Hi

Our DS was a little late starting talking (about 2/12). Well late, according to the health visitor/nursery, we weren't concerned.

Since then, his speech has developed brilliantly and he's constantly chattering away with a really good range of words. ( Just turned 3 in June)

About 3 days ago, he suddenly started struggling with You/We/I

So whereas before he'd say, 'you like a piece of cake mummy' (whilst sticking a plastic cake in our mouths!)

He's suddenly started saying

You you you you you you you you you you you like a piece of cake mummy. It can can be up to 10 or more repeated words.

It's the same with We and I but doesn't seem to be really affecting any other words. I don't think he's doing it for comic effect as it seems like a real struggle to get to the next word in the sentance.

Is it just because his brain is thinking faster and he hasn't got the rest of the sentence ready maybe? or is it a normal part of speech development?

Thanks for any advice

Normal part of speech development. I'm a speech therapist 😊

Hi

Thank you so much for taking the time to reply, that's really reassuring then as we'd been worrying! 😀

It's just like you say, the mouth can't catch up with the brain, the language can't quite keep up with the vocabulary. Have a Google of the demands and capacities model, and think about how many demands are going on for kids - internally and externally!

So many children develop a stammer at some point, very few go on the have a long lasting stammer 🙂

Thank you :) - will look at that