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I think my daughter has started stuttering

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AnAussieMum · 07/10/2022 14:26

Hi all,
My daughter is 6.5 and in year 1. She has some issues and we are currently waiting to be assessed as she may have ASD.

My issue however is that I think she has just started stuttering in the past few months.

The problem is I assumed a stutter was with the letter of a word for example c c c c cat. D d d d dog.
However she doesn't do this she seems to be putting h in her sentences.

So it sounds like " mummy h h h h can we go h h h h to the shop today"
Or the other day I asked what she wanted for dinner and she responded h h h h h lasagne.

She doesn't do it often but it is more noticeable.

I have tried to google it but couldn't really find anything that sounded like her.

Had anyone been through this. Does it sound like a stutter?

As I said we are on the list waiting to be seen for a few other issues however this one is getting more noticeable and is another thing to add to the list of concerns.

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Newuser82 · 07/10/2022 14:39

Have you spoken to her teacher? They are often very good with things like this. If not then you can ask to be referred to speech therapist via gp.

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AnAussieMum · 07/10/2022 14:47

Newuser82 · 07/10/2022 14:39

Have you spoken to her teacher? They are often very good with things like this. If not then you can ask to be referred to speech therapist via gp.

I havnt yet but I will do.
We are on school holidays until Tuesday and unfortunately the teacher she had has left on maternity leave so she will be getting a new one. Which makes things even harder as the previous teacher knows some of her little quirks so we are starting all over again.

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Squiblet · 07/10/2022 14:55

My DS had similar and it was diagnosed as "speech disfluency". Not exactly a stutter or a stammer, but a hesitation between words.

He had therapy (some at school, arranged through the council learning trust), but Covid intervened before it could get very far. Regardless, he grew out of it at about age 11.

33goingon64 · 07/10/2022 14:56

My DB developed a stutter around the same age apparently. my parents decided to ignore it and see what happened, not mention it or comment on it to him. It went away after a while. Might be best not to make a big deal out of it and see whether it sorts itself out.

Elisheva · 07/10/2022 14:59

Some children gain a temporary stammer (dysfluency) during times of stress, or development. For some children it comes and goes throughout their childhood, whereas for others it becomes more permanent. Usually speech therapy will wait for 6 months or so to see if it is a developmental phase, if they are still stammering they can then offer support which usually focuses on the adults around the child rather than the child alone.

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AnAussieMum · 07/10/2022 15:18

Squiblet · 07/10/2022 14:55

My DS had similar and it was diagnosed as "speech disfluency". Not exactly a stutter or a stammer, but a hesitation between words.

He had therapy (some at school, arranged through the council learning trust), but Covid intervened before it could get very far. Regardless, he grew out of it at about age 11.

Thank you and did it sound similar to my daughters? Rather than the letter of the word it was more a h h h h.

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AnAussieMum · 07/10/2022 15:19

33goingon64 · 07/10/2022 14:56

Thank you I havnt mentioned it to her at all. We don't bring any attention to it. Its just something I have started noticing as have her sisters.

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AnAussieMum · 07/10/2022 15:22

Thank you, that might be more it hesitation hense the h h h rather than the letter of the word
It seems like she knows what she is going to say however the words just won't come out. She doesn't seem frustrated with it at all and we just wait until she says what she is trying to say.

Hopefully once we are in with the child development centre they will refer us to the different services that we need.

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mdh2020 · 07/10/2022 16:00

My 3 yr old developed a stutter after her brother was born. We ignored it and it went away.

Squiblet · 07/10/2022 16:06

Thank you and did it sound similar to my daughters? Rather than the letter of the word it was more a h h h h.

It was more like he was stopping and saying "mm ah um" in between words, sometimes several times in a sentence. Like he just couldn't get the words out.

Like you and PP, we didn't make a big thing of it, just waited patiently while he spoke. The onset of puberty seemed to help and now he speaks fine.

Newuser82 · 07/10/2022 19:54

mdh2020 · 07/10/2022 16:00

My 3 yr old developed a stutter after her brother was born. We ignored it and it went away.

Yes that's why I suggested speaking to the teacher as my 3 year old developed a little stammer. I was concerned but the nursery teacher said it was very common at that age as they were going through a developmental leap. We did the same as you and ignored it and it went away fairly quickly.

baxtersm · 07/10/2022 20:24

My friends little girl is 8 and she has something similar.. she will say 'ummmm ummmm ummm ummm' before she speaks.. she can then get a few sentences out perfectly fine and then again she she'll go 'ummm ummmm' My friend has never mentioned it to me and I've never brought it up as I'm sure she's more than aware of it.. I often wonder if she'll grow out of it or if her friends ever comment on it.

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