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From: Walt Manning
Date: 04 Oct 2006
Time: 15:19:10 -0500
Remote Name: 141.225.97.231
Joseph - Beginning to stutter at an "older" age is extremely unlikely. On the other hand, a fluency disorder such as psychogenic or (especially) neurogenic stuttering may occur, the latter as the result of an insult to the central nervous system. In a related matter, there are very few studies concerning what happens to people who stutter as they reach the last several decades of their life, but what there is generally indicates that stuttering behavior stays at the same level but the handicapping effects are somewhat less.