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I have been deeply involved in sharing my understanding with fellow stutterers, speech and language pathologists and researchers, especially in the 90's. The older part of this blog reports some the discussions I was having on a professional list at that time. Most of the discussions are still relevant today.

I remained involved in the stuttering community, mostly as participant in activities of the National Stuttering Association (NSA), and occasional workshop leader. Since my retirement I have returned to writing, and I just developed an audio course on fluency improvement. A link for the course can be found in this blog, as well as posts based on more recent discussions I am having in a Stuttering Facebook group.

Monday, April 05, 2021

Could amnesia eliminate stuttering?

Thus is an important question that relates to how stuttering is dependent on formed memories. To the extent that our stutter is triggered or made worse by anxiety about past instances, we might be left with what the original neurological problem was, and, at least for a while, the stutter might be lessened... until the whole "stuttering framework" is rebuilt. Does anybody know of any study on amnesia in stutterers? I am also asking myself if the opposite might be true for folks who have been able to build GOOD adaptive behaviors around the onset of blocks etc. (I *might* be in that category...) Would amnesia make me forget how I learned to deal with blocks and send me back to my youthful stuttering patterns? 

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