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The word stuttering is characterized by an abnormal high frequency and/or duration of stoppages in the forward flow of speech. Such stoppages usually take the form of repetitions of a sound, syllables or one-word syllables, prolongations of sounds or blocks of airflow or voice speech. (Ainsworth & Gruss pg.7) Stuttering can also be defined by the disturbance in the normal fluency and the patterning of speech. (Nicolosi, Harryman, Kresheck pg.261) The concept of stuttering and the theories behind the origins are of great interest to me. Not only is stuttering one of the most well known speech dysfluencies but also has a personal meaning. When growing up I never had to see a speech pathologist however now that I have grown older I am curious if I have ever had a problem with stuttering. To my knowledge I have never had any trouble although when speaking I find myself getting caught up on word and fumbling around to get stuff out, especially when speaking fast. Upon doing the research for this paper I found that I don’t have a problem with stuttering but I do have a dysfluencies called cluttering. The cluttering is a result from thinking faster then my vocal organ can get out the words. Although cluttering is not the focus