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cluttering · Cluttering, a speech disorder that sounds like stuttering

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  • Founded: Oct 26, 2003
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Cluttering is a speech disorder that in many ways is similar to stuttering, but is actually much different than stuttering. It is most often described as a "mild stutter," or that the person is nervous or doesn't know what they are trying to say.

Unique to cluttering is the clutterer typically does not know about cluttering. Probably most people who will be reading this will be friends or family of clutterers, because clutterers think their speech is fine.

The best way to tell if someone has cluttering is looking for excessive disfluencies. Disfluencies are:

a) Repetitions ("I will..I will...I will...go to the store")
b) Interjections (filler words like "uh," and adding seemingly random words and phrases in the middle of other thoughts)
c) Revisions ("I'm going for a...to Wal-Mart," crossing out a thought, and replacing it with something else)

Examples:

Cluttering: "I want to go to the st...uh...place where you buy...market st-st-store and I don't have muh-muh ti-ti-time money."

Stuttering: "I want to go to the sssssssssstore and I don't have muh-muh- muh-muh-money."

Consider contributing to the: cluttering entry on Wikipedia

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Re: Adults with cluttering
Hi Jennifer- Yes I believe there are adults here diagnosed with cluttering, such as myself a 38-yr man "un-officially" diagnosed with cluttering from early
Posted - Fri Dec 4, 2009 6:34 pm
J Argo
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Student Question About Cluttering
Hi Everyone! My name is Katie and I am a speech-language pathology student. I had a question about cluttering and I was wondering if you all could help. I
Posted - Fri Dec 4, 2009 6:09 pm
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Cluttering questionnaire - Participants needed!
Firstly, thanks to everyone who has completed my questionnaire so far. However, I still need more participants to complete my research. I am a final year
Posted - Fri Dec 4, 2009 6:09 pm
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Adults with cluttering
Hi again, All! I am in my third year of graduate school for Speech Language Pathology at William Paterson University in Wayne, NJ. I was interested in knowing
Posted - Fri Dec 4, 2009 6:08 pm
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What's your motivation for wanting to make your speech better?
Hi Prakash, I think what you just said is an extremely important post. I've been thinking for years, "What is it that could motivate clutterers to improve
Posted - Wed Nov 25, 2009 7:17 pm
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