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From: Tom Weidig (thestutteringbrain.blogspot.com)
Date: 10 Oct 2009
Time: 04:57:24 -0500
Remote Name: 91.148.95.150
Hi John, it is not treasted as PTD, because stuttering is not a PTD. In traumatic events, the brain itself is damaged due to extraordinary abnormally high level of certain neurotransmitters. So these people have probablems recovering normal brain function and sometimes need fully recover. People who stutter are in stessful and painful situations, but it is not extreme stress like wars, accidents, assult or rape. There is no doubt that stuttering has a lot of learned behaviour like associations, but they have been learned by a normally functioning learning system. It is a response and reaction to stuttering which has its origin in neurobiology in the speech system.