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From: Tom Weidig (thestutteringbrain.blogspot.com)
Date: 12 Oct 2007
Time: 16:02:15 -0500
Remote Name: 75.67.196.207
Dear Luc, it's an interesting field of research. Did you do the dual-tasks / finger tapping with them? That could be fruitful and easy, especially as some of your PhD students have worked on this. But then again they might have an inferior performance due to the trauma anyway? I guess their brains are different to adults with developmental stuttering whose brains were shaped by compensating for stuttering, whereas people with neurogenic stuttering have mature brains. So their stuttering might be "purer" and brain imaging work on them could give clearer signals. Even if everyone had a different trauma or infection that made them stutter, this would probably fall out as it is not systematic across all of them, whereas compensation to developmental stuttering might be for all or most stuttering children. What's your view? Best wishes Tom