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From: Ken St. Louis
Date: 05 Oct 2009
Time: 08:43:22 -0500
Remote Name: 157.182.15.121
I am not aware of any studies that have documented this carefully. To get such information would require a longitudinal study of many children who stuttered and then follow them for many years. In the 1960s such a study was done in Newcastle Upon Tyne, England. I do not believe they documented such cases, i.e., children stuttering, remitting, and then beginning to stutter again. On the other hand, I know of several individuals clinically for whom this happened. I cannot be sure that they completely remitted from stuttering after a surge in early childhood, but several have told me that their early stuttering went away and then emerged again during adolescence, especially during the end of high school and college when academic/job stresses increased. There are probably a few case studies in the literature that describe this phenomenon, but I don't know of any. Perhaps someone else will know of one (some) and pass on the reference(s) to you. Ken