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SALT advice - is this classed as stammering?

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weebleswobblemoreonboxingday · 28/11/2007 22:38

DS2 is dyspraxic. He was discharged from SALT about 5 years ago but is now being re-referred and has an assessment in a couple of weeks.

I have to fill out a questionnaire before he goes and I'm wondering whether I should describe how he speaks as stammering. An example of how he speaks would be "Today ay ay ay I want to go to the park."

It's always the end of the word he repeats. He has word finding difficulties but this is something that has developed over the last year or so. I don't know whether he's trying to find the next word to say or whether it's stammering. Any ideas? TIA

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sphil · 28/11/2007 23:13

DS1 (6) did exactly what you describe up until about a year ago. We're pretty sure he's dyspraxic though he has no dx. We asked the informal advice of a private SLT (working at the time with DS1's younger brother) who said that she didn't think it was stammering but 'disfluency'. He still has disjointed and sometimes muddled speech but the repeating of the ends of words seems to have been replaced with long silences while he tries to find the next word. Funnily enough, when the SLT tested him on his word finding ability he scored highly but she said it was quite common for there to be a difference between formal testing and the normal flow of conversation.

moondog · 28/11/2007 23:26

Describe it as stammering and give examples.
(I'm a salt although not specialist in this field.)

weebleswobblemoreonboxingday · 29/11/2007 09:53

Thanks for the replies. I'll get going now on filling it out.

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