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From: Joseph Dewey
Date: 17 Oct 2005
Time: 01:23:35 -0500
Remote Name: 24.10.232.18
Hi Jackie. Nervous speech is very similar to cluttered speech. In fact, most people, when they give a public speech and get nervous describe their speech as "stuttering" even though it resembles cluttering much more than stuttering. Actually, regular or normal disfluent nervous speech doesn't resemble stuttering at all. I think that nervous speech will make anyone's speech break down more, including clutterers. I also think that the good therapies for cluttering can also be very beneficial for people who get nervous and have their speech break down. However, with a pure clutterer, they will clutter whether or not they are nervous, and they would typically be more labeled as nervous than that they would feel nervous themselves, because they are generally unconcerned with speech. I think that there are a lot of cluttering hybrids, like stutterer-clutterers, and that most people can relate to having moments of "cluttered speech." So, I think that you could have a lot of moments of cluttered speech even if you weren't diagnosed with the disorder of cluttering. My recommendation would be to see an SLP.