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From: Woody Starkweather
Date: 10/18/01
Time: 2:32:47 PM
Remote Name: 155.247.229.88
Hi Everyone:
No, stuttering is not a form of mental weakness. On the average, stutterers are just as intelligent as other people, although sometimes they test a little lower because the difficulty in talking can interfere with their responses, even in written tests.
On the other hand, there are some developmental problems that are somewhat more common among stutterers than among nonstutterers, some of which are various types of learning problems. And of course he might have both a stuttering problem and a learning problem. They don't need to be related. I would advise having him evaluated both by a speech-language pathologist and by a psychologist who can do psychometric testing. Then, you will understand the nature of the problem.
Woody