3 Year Old Son Suddenly Started Stuttering

For my cousin, this was just a spurt in cognitive development. He went through speech therapy and at one point they wanted to do surgery to cut that piece of skin that holds underneath your tongue. What finally was decided was that his cognitive skills had outpaced his physical abilities. He was struggling to find the exact word while his mouth was trying to form a regular sentence. He outgrew it within a couple of years. But it was hard to watch him struggle. Just a side note, he has an IQ of over 160.
Keep up with the therapy and listen to your gut. It might be nothing you need to really worry about, but you know your son better than anyone. Trust your feelings.

My daughter also stuttered starting around age 2-3 years. Our preschool teacher recommended a screening through the school district, which we did. She was in speech class for several years. The disfluencies have finally gone away. But, mostly modeling slower speech yourself for the child to imitate is what is uaually done to help, as well has not finishing the sentences for your child. My daughter had an extensive vocabulary for her age when the disfluencies started and they figured that basically her brain was going faster than her body could keep up. No, it has nothing to do with the vaccine.

Be patient with his speech right now, and see if it goes away. My son went through several periods of "disfluencies" and a speech pathologist friend assured me that it was because he was going thru a language growth spurt, and sure enough, he was, each time.

To add my own advice is pretty much to repeat most of what others have already said, and that key in dealing with something like this is to be patient and not allow yourself to become frustrated with his speech. Stuttering, as with most tics, is typically made much worse by nervousness, so it is best not to call too much attention to it.

I have a friend whose son did the exact same thing around the same age. They just let it happen and were patient when he spoke, and in a few months it was gone. I don't believe they did any speech therapy, but just waited it out.
Good luck, D.!

Hi D.,
My name is T.. I have almost raised 6 children, 3 girls 3 boys. The reason I say almost is because I still have 2 teenage boys that aren't adults yet. Anyways my middle daughter (who is now 24) picked up a stutter right around the same age as your son. She had also had excellent speeking before. She ended up growing out of it by the time she was 5. Months before she started kindergarten. I hope this helps ease your mind some. Good luck .