2.5yr old started stammering

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Any advice or experience on this? Small boy is just about 2.5, I am told 'advanced' in his speech, he basically speaks full sentences, intonation etc. In the last week, he has developed a stammer over words, such as
"It's going on on on on on on on the floor". We have also hit the 'what's that' stage....
When do I worry about the stammer? Or am I OK to assume it's a developmental thing where he is searching for a word and can't possibly stop talking (because he doesn't!).

I plan to speak to nursery to see what they think but would love to hear from anyone who has had this.

I'm a SLT, if there is no family history of stammering, this is likely to be normal non fluency. Especially given his age and that you say that his language is quite advanced. It's basically where his brain is working faster than his mouth trying to get the words out. If there is family history, it could still be NNF, but would be worth a referral to your local SLT team.

My son had this around the same age, it seemed to be getting worse so we spoke to GP and they referred us to salt. One day about 6/7 weeks later he woke up and just... Wasn't stammering. The day after the salt lady called 🤣

Sometimes it comes back if he's really tired or excited and it often takes him a while to get out what he wants to say, but I think that's because he often has this long stream of thought to get out and it takes a while!

You need to watch that clip of the young American boy trying to explain his dream 😂 I have three boys. They all do it, my 4 year old still does sometimes!

My DS was very similar, advanced speech and language and started stammering at a similar age. I asked for a speech therapy referral when he was 3 but he did keep his stammer and now stammers as an adult. Non fluency is normal in young children, some self resolve, some overcome with therapy and some remain with a stammer regardless.

My DS is now 25, has a degree and a professional job and is not disadvantaged by his stammer at all

Both my children did this at 2.5. An slt told me exactly the same as the first commenter here. Normal non fluency. We paid absolutely no attention to it either time and it went away. We found it to worsen at times when we were out of routine e.g. busy christmas holidays

My dd started this all of a sudden at this age. It got more and more pronounced, accompanied by some quite significant tics. Then all of a sudden, a few weeks later, it stopped.

At the time the advice we were given was to significantly slow down our own speech and put lots of pauses in, as well as pausing for a few seconds before answering questions. Use short sentences.
Have some 1-1 time daily where you might play games where you take it in turn to talk. Like those orchard games.
Don't encourage them to slow down/ breathe/take time. Just show that by your own example. Try to just listen to what they're saying rather than how they say it.

My DD went through a phase of doing this around the same age and we were told similar to the first poster - her brain was just working faster than her mouth could speak the words. We basically completely ignored it so as not to make her self conscious. So, we never talked over her, or finished her sentences, but just waited calmly and nonchalantly until the right word came out. She never gave any impression she was even aware it was happening. It was certainly not all the time, it seemed to come in bursts, and always more pronounced when she was tired or over excited. Anyways, she grew out of it over the course of around 6 months.