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From: Mark Irwin
Date: 02 Oct 2008
Time: 08:22:20 -0500
Remote Name: 203.192.86.115
Hi John, I enjoyed your article but feel bound to point out you failed to mention Social Anxiety Disorder which is an associated pathology in 50%-90% of people who stutter. SAD is the 4th most common cause of psychiatric ill health affecting approximately 12% of the population at some time in their lives, with between 70-80% suffering a comorbid diagnosis. Interestingly stuttering is listed as a symptom of SAD in the DSM. This raises speculation about the nature of stuttering as Selective Mutism (a situational inability to speak beginning in early childhood) is regarded as a social anxiety disorder. But more than all this SAD is a wide ranging measure of how pws act, feel and think in relation to their stuttering. In other words it gives useful information to therapists, clients and the general public. I would be interested in your comments. Kind regards, Mark