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From: Ken St. Louis
Date: 10/3/03
Time: 3:04:58 PM
Remote Name: 157.182.12.31
Let me second what Woody has said about the demands of using a large vocabulary. That certainly could be happening in the case of your five and half year-old daughter. If I had to judge, based on your description, I would reach the same conclusion.
Nevertheless, I wonder if there might not be something else going on. Without further information, it would be impossible to speculate further, but..... What was it that lead the SLP to suspect motoric problems? How long has your daughter has been in therapy and for what problems? Is/were there any problems besides stuttering?
Lois Nelson, former professor of speech-language pathology at the University of Wisconsin, was convinced that there is a small group of stuttering children for which word-finding problems were important in their stuttering (or cluttering). Some of these children have coexisting problems that could involve the linguistic and motoric systems in more general ways than "pure" stuttering typically does.
Thanks for your post.
Ken