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From: Henny Bijleveld
Date: 10/23/01
Time: 1:27:27 AM
Remote Name: 164.15.7.112
Dear Daniel Orlanda,
Thank you for your interesting questions. First, I don't think developmental stuttering can always be distinguished from acquired stuttering, because of the fact that the symptoms are very similar : repetitions, prolongations, block, are the same,at the same places, with the same intensity etc. What I have noticed as a possible difference, are the very important pauses and interjections in the sentences of acquired stutterers; Secondly, most acquired stutterers have the automatic series oimpaired, which is rather rare in developmental stuttering, but which can occur. -I do not think you are born as a stutterer. But you are born with a specific brain functioning and linguistic and motoric abilities, that one can ameliorate, that one can stimulate and that one can push over the top.Thus the linguistic and motoric components are the basic elements that can induce the possibility of stuttering to occur. BUT you need a special event to have the delicat system braken down and the stutter to occur. Many people can live with the porblems without experiencing stuttering. When stuttering occurs, the affects and psychological stress around it are so high, that they soon take over the linguistic and motoric dysfunctioning, so that many people for decades and decades have told us that stuttering is only a psychological problem. I hope that I have answered your questions.