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From: Tom Weidig (thestutteringbrain.blogspot.com)
Date: 08 Oct 2005
Time: 03:48:33 -0500
Remote Name: 83.99.91.178
You are thinking along the right lines in my opinion. Stuttering is really a misleading term as it refers to the symptoms and the disorder at the same time. This ambiguity often leads to some confusion during discussions. In my blog, I refer to PDS (persistent developmental stuttering) as the disorder and stuttering as the dysfluent speech and other related symptoms. Subtyping is very interesting, crucial for truely understanding the nature of stuttering but very tricky. What I have read sofar, the following classification features might be useful: developmental as opposed to acquired (by stroke or neurological illness), family history vs none, persistent as opposed to transitional (early childhood dysfluncy), neurological incidence in early childhood (blow to the head, ADHD symptoms, etc.) vs normal development, female vs male.