Stuttering: A Diagnostic Dilemma

Abstract

When an adult who has stuttered in childhood, experiences a sudden reonset of stuttering, the clinician has to clarify whether this “adult onset” stuttering is the result of brain damage, and thus will be labelled as a primary neurological stuttering. It also can be the reappearance of the “cured” developmental stuttering, which may be brought out by a special event, and therefore is mostly labelled psychogenic stuttering.