My child is too smart?

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For the past 8 months we have found that my 3 1/2 yr old is very hard to understand when she speaks, she studders a lot and her pronunciation is really bad. We had to make her repeat just about everything she says several times to be able to make it out. Meanwhile I have a 2 1/2 year old daughter whom everyone understands every word she says and comments on how she speaks better then her older sister. Back in July I mentioned to her Dr., whom also doesn't understand my daughter when she speaks, and inquired if she may have a hearing problem, as an old friend of mine had a speech problems because she was saying words the way she was hearing them. We had my daughter hearing tested and she passed without a problem, so the next step was to have her evaluated by a speech therapist and get her into an early learning program to help her so when she starts school her speech with be corrected. I had my daughter evaluated for the early learning program which consisted of a teacher and a speech therapist come to my home and test my daughter, the test ranged from below 75 need help, 85 to 100 average, and 101 to 115 above average. After testing my child they told me from the quick results she doesn't qualify for the early leaning program, I was shocked, and asked can you understand what she is saying, and they responded not on the first try but after her repeating several times, "yes". and I said how can she not qualify then, and they said she is very smart and her vocabulary was too big and she knew too many words and she is just trying to use all the words she knows and that is why she studders and it's hard to understand her speech. When I got the written report they had scored my daughter at a 114. Have you every heard of a child being TOO SMART for an early learning program?