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From: Greg Snyder
Date: 15 Oct 2006
Time: 11:42:35 -0500
Remote Name: 207.68.248.51
Hi IIia. I appreciate your thoughtful response and clarification. Certainly, speech-based fears and phobias can occur along side stuttered speech. And dealing with these issues is often a valuable aspect of therapy. Your following statement confuses me: [Stuttering appears only while public speaking, when they speak in front of the big audience, whereas there is no stuttering in other situations (speaking in the small groups, consisting 3-4 persons).] The data in which I am familiar does clearly suggest a reduction in severity when a person with developmental stutters speaks alone. However, the data also clearly indicates that the stuttered speech is still present even when people with developmental stuttering speak alone and without knowledge of being recorded. (Citations available upon request.) Further, to suggest that stuttering does not exist (in developmental stutterers) while speaking in small groups of 3 to 4 people is antithetical to any data, personal experience, or personal observations in which I am familiar. Subsequently, it seems that the population in which you describe isn’t the developmental stuttering population per-se, but rather another population that seems to only stutter in certain situations and for psychological reasons. And to be honest, I do not have a good grasp on the literature for such a population, if one exists. And to be even more honest, there simply isn’t enough data on stuttering in other expressive modalities to really provide a valid response to your question. All my best, and I’m sorry I couldn’t be of any help.