L.C.
My pediatrician said that if it's repeating a whole word, it's not a concern. It's when they repeat a sound and have trouble getting the whole word out when it's something you want to look into. What's basically happening is his brain is going a mile a minute with all of his thoughts and his mouth can't keep up. My pedicatrician said a speech pathologist friend told him that he should NOT tell his son to "slow down" because that can get frustrating for the child, but he confessed to me that he didn't listen to his friend and would just tell his son to slow down, which is what my husband does when my son starts to stutter. My son is 3.5 and now that I think about it, I haven't heard him do it for a few months.