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From: Lisa LaSalle
Date: 20 Oct 2009
Time: 16:52:37 -0500
Remote Name: 137.28.24.47
Thanks, Melissa. Limited data is available on prevalence (how many clutter currently) and incidence (how many have ever cluttered) in cluttering in general, let alone on how often in children cluttering is diagnosed. The best guestimate would be 1.5% of 7-8 yr olds, but this would not represent pure cluttering and is based on Becker & Grundmann (1971), cited in St. Louis et al. (2007). This chapter also states that "Filatova (2002) tested 55 fluency-disordered children between the ages of 7 and 16 and found that 7% were pure clutterers. We raise the possibility that all types of cluttering may be undiagnosed because: (1) relatively few clinicians are as knowledgeable about cluttering as they are about stuttering; (2) few clutterers self-refer for services; and (3) some clutterers do not believe they have a speech disorder... (p. 301)." Your other Q, "And which therapy approaches would be most effective to use with children who clutter?" I would answer that fun ways of self-monitoring should be brought into the therapy approach. So, how could yu have a child slow down enough to improve intelligibilty and have fun with it? What about use of Taboo Jr.? Audacity as a digital recorder playback device? etc. Also what about focusing on pausing to formulate, and setting a goal for "telling a good story" with a beginning middle and end.