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From: Greg Snyder
Date: 04 Oct 2008
Time: 20:57:45 -0500
Remote Name: 207.68.248.51
As a previous poster replied--this is almost a chicken/egg scenario. Are stutterers more anxious as people, thus we stutter? Or--have people who stutter been beaten down by society, thus they have increased speech-related social anxiety. The only real way to answer this question is to do anxiety screenings on children prior to the emergence of stuttering--and see if "anxiety" will predict stuttering behaviors. But with that said--no, I don't think that stuttering is caused by anxiety or some kind of personal character flaw--regardless of what select "research" may suggest. And there's tons of research to support such a position.