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cluttering · Cluttering, a speech disorder that sounds like stuttering

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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: I think my son might be a clutterer
Regarding insurance it is my impression that insurance companies largely cut services for speech therapy because it was believed that these services are
Posted - Mon Jun 29, 2009 1:36 am
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I think my son might be a clutterer
So today I was reading on a different, unrelated, message board about cluttering. I Googled it and I think my son has it. He is 11. For years he has
Posted - Sun Jun 28, 2009 10:54 pm
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Re: advice
Hi Michelle, I don't think much research has been done with adult clutterers, so there might be just guesses at this point. That's really cool that you're
Posted - Thu Jun 25, 2009 10:39 pm
Joseph Dewey
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Re: advice
I'm new to the cluttering world as well... but for an older person, if it is getting worse, I would wonder if there is anything else going on.. Has he ever
Posted - Thu Jun 25, 2009 4:45 pm
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hi my brother is 31 years old and only got dignosed with cluttering about 4 years ago, he has other learning difficulties too, he sees a speach thearapist but
Posted - Thu Jun 25, 2009 11:58 am
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