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From: Jill Newberry
Date: 15 Oct 2007
Time: 11:29:28 -0500
Remote Name: 69.85.217.193
I am a speech pathology graduate student, and I found your article to be so interesting. I have observed a patient in one of my clinical settings who suffered trauma to the brain and is now a person who stutters. The patient was very open about the disfluency and they did not demonstrate any anxiety or fear. As a matter of fact, the stuttering was not being addressed in therapy at that time. The patient did, however, show improvements in their fluency as improvements were also being observed in cognition, word finding, etc. Has there been any research performed that reflects if there are patients with sudden neurogenic stuttering that show spontaneous recovery following strokes, brain injury, etc? Also, can sudden neurogenic stuttering occur in children who have suffered sudden illnesses/brain injury?