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From: Marc Kucharik
Date: 16 Oct 2012
Time: 19:59:16 -0500
Remote Name: 24.164.180.113
The breakdown of symptomatology for neurogenic stuttering was a piece of the article that, to me, is really fascinating. Since stuttering is such a mystery, to all professionals, it was intriguing that a classification of the core behaviors was created. I'm interested to know the reasoning behind the classification of the behaviors, as in, why are prolongations and blocks grouped together and what makes repetitions different to be categorized as "clonic"? Also, I found it to be interesting that a clarification was made about neurogenic and idiopathic stuttering. Once again, stuttering is so mind-boggling and yet a distinction between neurogenic and idiopathic stuttering was made from developmental stuttering. I'm interested to know why developmental stuttering was excluded from this portion of the article? Is there any research to identify whether developmental stuttering, generally, shows more clonic, tonic or both groups of behaviors? If so, what are the variables that may produce repetitions instead of prolongation and blocks and visa versa? Thank you for your time and I hope to hear back soon.