I just listened to an interview on StutterTalk with Jerry Maguire, and everyone seemed to agree that stuttering is a brain disorder.
I am going to shock my readers now, but I believe that stuttering is not just a brain disorder but also a behavioural disorder. The underlying cause is a brain abnormality leading to instable speech which then leads to association between stuttering and words, situations or people. And these associations can trigger stuttering without there being a neurological issue at that very instance. So 90% of your stuttering events might well NOT be of a neurological cause but you stutter because one of your associations have been triggered by a word, event or situation leading the brain to execute stuttering. I believe more and more that stuttering is a hybrid disorder.
Compare to Tourette syndrome for example. The urge for the tics are always there but sometimes they are suppressed longer and other times there are not. (Unless I misunderstand the disorder...) But with stuttering, the neurological stuttering is not always there...
I just listened to an interview on StutterTalk with Jerry Maguire, and everyone seemed to agree that stuttering is a brain disorder.
I am going to shock my readers now, but I believe that stuttering is not just a brain disorder but also a behavioural disorder. The underlying cause is a brain abnormality leading to instable speech which then leads to association between stuttering and words, situations or people. And these associations can trigger stuttering without there being a neurological issue at that very instance. So 90% of your stuttering events might well NOT be of a neurological cause but you stutter because one of your associations have been triggered by a word, event or situation leading the brain to execute stuttering. I believe more and more that stuttering is a hybrid disorder.
Compare to Tourette syndrome for example. The urge for the tics are always there but sometimes they are suppressed longer and other times there are not. (Unless I misunderstand the disorder...) But with stuttering, the neurological stuttering is not always there...