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From: Ken St. Louis
Date: 08 Oct 2009
Time: 16:36:46 -0500
Remote Name: 157.182.15.121
Dear Pam, Thanks for the inquiry. What you describe sounds like cluttering to me, but there might well be more. The unusual disfluencies such as final syllable repetitions are not typical of either stuttering or cluttering, although some have been reported in case studies in the literature. I can't be sure about Asperger's Disorder, but I don't believe they are typical of those either. Nevertheless, the mazes, the excessive normal disfluencies, and the rapid rate sound like cluttering. Perhaps you might want to watch the Stuttering Foundation of America DVD called "Cluttering" that Florence Myers and I prepared. I think that might help you decide about whether or not your youngster clutters. Maybe someone else will weigh in here and add another perspective. Thanks again for the question and thorough description. Ken