"cluttering" and speech therapy

"Hillary Israeli" wrote in message
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animzmirot wrote:

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*"Bodi" wrote in message
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* I had never heard of this, but it sounds like what my 7 y/o ds does.
* He will be talking, stop, then repeat the last word or the last part of
* the last word he said (sometimes more than once) before he continues.
* We always thought it was just something he did.
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*No, that doesn't sound like cluttering. Cluttering is when a person's
mind
*moves much faster than their mouth, so they start talking but their mind
is
*racing way ahead, and they get lost partway through the story, and have
to
*start back at the beginning. It isn't repeating just a word, it's
starting

Oh, that has a name and is an actual recognized entity? I just thought it
was something really annoying that happens to me now and then

If it only happens now and then, you're suffering from brain farts, not
cluttering. :-) Or perhaps old timers disease. Same difference. But
cluttering is really significant and if you have ever been around someone
who is a clutterer you'd see in a heartbeat that this isn't a brain fart,
it's a really big and pretty weird speech dysfluency. As I said, it's fairly
rare, so rare that most SLPs haven't ever encountered it or even know what
it is, but it's quite significant when you are around someone with the
problem. It can improve greatly with ST, but clutterers always have kind of
a wandering way of reporting anything, with starts and stops in the most
unlikely places, and definate word finding issues.