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For Kenneth St. Louis: Clutterer?

From: Pam Norton
Date: 08 Oct 2009
Time: 15:27:05 -0500
Remote Name: 67.164.39.220

Comments

I have a very bright 7 year old boy with moderate dysfluency whose expressive vocabulary (as tested on the CELF-4) is very high (18) but word structure is somewhat delayed and he has moderate to severe wordfinding based on TWFD (Diane German) (especially in discourse). He uses substitutions (38% of the time in a 53 utterance sample), reformulations (40%), insertions, repetitions (non-stuttered, 33%), and empty words (20%). He seems to have difficulty putting several ideas together in sentences using clauses. He's very labile and can begin crying if his ideas are misinterpreted or misunderstood. His dysfluencies are characterized by sound insertions (uh! ih!) and repetitions as opposed to prolongations of internal vowels in words ("di-i-i-ives") and final syllables ("thinking-ing", "for-ra-ra"/for). An example of his circumlocution is "And you had to thin of...animals and draw pict-, five lea-, different leaves and five different a-animals and you have to draw pictures of them and wri-i-tethe animals that it was." I've never seen this internal vowel or final sound/syllable repetition before. A colleague has suggested that he has Asperger's (??). I suspect he's a clutterer. Any thoughts on this? Thanks!


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