Does anyone has a child with stuttering and speech delay ?

[blessedmom3]

My 5yo who has a mild speech delay has just started to stutter also about a week ago. He never did that before. Now he really struggles to get the words out (at the start) and sometimes gets very frustrated and says "I can't say it" . It seems like the word just doesn't come out !

His speech delay is very mild and he never struggled with stuttering .

[crstarlette]

While I haven't had my youngest ds tested (if there is a speech delay test?) he is definitely behind where most children his age are and he does sometimes stutter. The difference, though, is that he doesn't get frustrated, so I don't see it as a huge problem. I do sometimes have him repeat what he said without stuttering. So, if he stutters the first time he says it, after he has gotten it all out, I ask him to say it again and he is able to do so without stuttering.

[dsmith]

My nephew was speech delayed, and then started stuttering. It started slowly, built up in frequency, leveled off for a while, and gradually faded away. He did have a therapist come in for about a year, but that was more for the delay and articulation issues than for the stuttering. I know that stuttering can be a temporary thing. My brother has stuttered since the age of three, but there was no speech delay involved. I don't know that the two are always related, but stuttering can be temporary. We thought ds was beginning to stutter for a while, but it was more of a tic/ocd type thing.