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From: Darrell Dodge
Date: 08 Oct 2004
Time: 01:12:55 -0500
Remote Name: 152.163.100.72
Hi Dale: I think that Peter would agree it's both of these. The conditioned responses become stimuli for the stuttering reactions. The conditioned network of stimuli and responses include attitudes, feelings, situational memories, beliefs, actual physical behaviors (tension, etc.) and probably neurological phenomena that underlie the sense of control loss. Because of the way fear conditioned memories are stored and retrieved, emergence or occurrence of any of these can serve up the entire kit and kaboodle or enough of it to result in stuttering. Hence, any of them can be a trigger. That's why it's so helpful to use a holistic and integrated approach. Thanks for the opportunity to clarify (which I hope that did.) - Darrell