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From: Vasu Parameswaran
Date: 04 Oct 2006
Time: 21:47:51 -0500
Remote Name: 69.248.127.181
Call me crazy, but I am not sure why people cannot have sign-related anxiety or penmanship anxiety as I think these could come from a deeper performance related anxiety. I find it hard to be as dismissive as you are about their possibility. Anyway, that's my opinion and you fluency researchers can sort it all out. Now as regards my second "question", sure, it was a comment and not a question, and you are free not to respond to it. Nevertheless, what I wrote was not personal opinion but fact: that the foundation of some of the more useful therapies I have read about and experienced, have emphasised the view that the causes (and complete cures for) stuttering elude us but that our maladaptive responses to possible core neurological disruptions can be modified with healthier responses, yielding more comfortable speech as a result. Indeed, it will be a while before scientists get deep into our brains or into our DNA and figure out this mystery, and before we're all dead, we might as well learn how to stutter comfortably. I agree with all you write about what a theory ought to be, and I am yet to see anything close to a rigorous theory for stuttering. There is research for stuttering and then there is therapy for stuttering.