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From: Jochen Krueger/Germany
Date: 06 Oct 2005
Time: 02:20:44 -0500
Remote Name: 213.69.225.58
I have a daughter (3 y,2 m) who has been stuttering for 3 month. I am not sure about the definition but she repeats for example ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ball or baaaall, some times in one out of three words esp. if she comes home from nursery school. It seems she does not even notice it and talks a lot with her friends and us. She startet speaking at an eary age (e.g. used I and you at the age of 20 months in a correct manner) and has a large treasury of words. At the moment it stabilizes somewhat but there is always some disfluency. Only once when she was sick (temperature above 40 dgr.C/104 F)she spoke normal. Do I have to start intervention with her? Or should I? Does it make sense anyway?(as proposed in Kalinowski J in Int J Lang Commun Disord. 2005 Jul-Sep;40(3):349-58) What are her chances given that she is somewhat lefthanded (Brosch in Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol. 1999 Jan 25;47(1):71-6)and has good speaking abilities?