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Anyone here who also clutter? Been diagnosed with cluttering by an SLP (another SLP doesn't agree however). This may be why often it is difficult to understand what I am saying. However, **slowing down my speech has helped immensely**. Here is a definition from the ASHA: Cluttering is a fluency disorder, characterized by a perceived rapid and/or irregular speech rate, atypical pauses, maze behaviors, pragmatic issues, decreased awareness of fluency problems or moments of disfluency, excessive disfluencies, collapsing or omitting syllables, and language formulation issues, which result in breakdowns in speech clarity and/or fluency. Individuals may exhibit pure cluttering or cluttering with stuttering. **Breakdowns in fluency and clarity can result from:** * atypical pauses within sentences that are not expected syntactically (e.g., “I will go to the **/** store and buy apples”, * deletion and/or collapsing of syllables (e.g., “I wanwatevision”), * excessive levels of typical disfluencies (e.g., revisions, interjections), * maze behaviors or frequent topic shifting (e.g., “I need to go to...I mean I’m out of cheese. I ran out of cheese and bread the other day while making sandwiches and now I’m out so I need to go to the store”), and/or * omission of word endings (e.g., “Turn the televisoff”). [View Poll](https://www.reddit.com/poll/10ewu5w)