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From: Luc De Nil
Date: 10 Oct 2007
Time: 21:01:57 -0500
Remote Name: 24.197.196.252
stuttering is adults is often associated with increased articulatory tension, blocks, struggle behaviour, etc. In some patients with neurogenic stuttering, this certainly also is the case, but in others the stuttering symptoms seem to resemble more those seen in young children. That is, they are easy repetitions without much tension. Also in some patients, it is hard to distinguish stuttering from other disfluencies, such as those associated with word finding problems. Secondary behaviours appear to occur at least in about half the patients, but this may differ to some extent based on the etiology of the brain disorder that lead to stuttering. The types of secondary behaviours may span the whole range, from word avoidances to body movements involving arms and legs. Very similar to those seen in persons with developmental stutteirng. What seems to be less present in my experience is the more severe forms of struggle behaviour that you sometimes can see in adults with developmental stuttering. But then again, maybe this is due to the fact that most patients with neurogenic stuttering that have been reported in the literature have not been stuttering for many years (although there certainly are exceptions).