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From: JMA
Date: 19 Oct 2007
Time: 17:32:07 -0500
Remote Name: 69.122.84.220
I found your article extremely enjoyable to read. As a current graduate student of Speech-Language Pathology, I find much of the anatomy aspects of the field extremely interesting. I have taken a few courses on stuttering and, of course, the "causes" of the fluency disorder are always discussed. I wanted to know if you find a true difference between acquired and neurogenic stuttering or if they are really one in the same? I feel as if it is clear that stuttering is caused by some neural defect or interuption, so to have two different classifications is interesting. But is it necessary? A child does not learn or seek out to stutter, it must be a neural cause. And whether that happens at birth or with the unfortunate cause of an accident, wouldn't it be safe to say that stuttering is neurogenic?