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Can you share some of your research? I'm a male stutterer who also loves walking on his tippy toes. I had no idea there was a connection...

To add on to this; I am a female and the only person in my extended family who stutters. I also was a "toe walker" (walked on my tippy toes) and I've seen some research that makes a connection between...

I don't think they have to be mutually exclusive. Since stuttering has strong genetic links and it's safe to assume that there is something different in how stutterers process linguistic rhythm, it ma...

No problem! As of now, I would like to specialize in some kind of surgery but that can change at any moment haha. I do not see a therapist anymore, but I did see one throughout high school and start o...

Thanks alot for the reply- Great words of advice! I normally dont get to talk about this topic to alot of people so I am seeing this as a opportunity to learn. My apologies if my questions are too per...

Interestingly I know someone whose elderly father has (had) a lifelong stutter. He recently had a stroke and now his stutter is gone. It works both ways!...

Umm. I don't remember any specific examples but there have been cases where people would develop a stutter after being in an accident where they got hit in the head. Such as through a car accident or ...

Can you go into more detail about the head trauma thing? I was hit by a car when I was very little, I don't remember if it was before or after I started stuttering though....

While I understand what your saying, I don't think it's solely because of anxiety. You get people who develop a stutter after physical head trauma. There are cases of it running in the family. Then we...

That is most certainly not the cause of your stuttering. Early researchers at the University of Iowa had a similar thought. So they immobilized the dominant hands of people who stutter by placing them...

I won't say no, because strange things happen in this world. But it is *highly*, *highly* unlikely. Your doctor and psych prof, respectfully, have no idea what they are talking about. Sadly, most med...

Can changing back to my dominant hand fix my stuttering?

Can changing back to my dominant hand fix my stuttering? I developed a stutter around the time my mom forced me to change writing hands (from left to right around 5-6 years old). My doctor said this m...

Honestly, the weed I smoke isn't really differentiaded (at least by who I get it from) that much between the two strains...it seems like, regardless of what I get, the weed helps my speech....

Actually, while it is *less* common for stuttering to first surface post-adolescence, it is not unheard of. Nor indicative that "something else" is likely going on. Always good to consult a medical p...

I would like to put in a cautionary word: People at the age of fifteen do not often just start stuttering for no reason. The first line of diagnosis is to get a very good, very thorough physical with ...

Stuttering is one of the least understood 'disabilities'. Its like the hardest parts of psychology and chemistry and neauroscience combined....

I was echoing the theory presented by Dr. Joseph Sheehan, one of the most respected SLPs out there. I personally agree with what he says and think it's correct, at least for most stutterers. I probabl...

I have read an article about this phenomenon (Though I cannot for my life remember where). Essentially, since you are using a different part of your brain, and different neurological pathways, when y...

Could this ever lead to therapeutic solutions through epigenetics or whatever the correct term is for that sort of thing, or would anything using knowledge obtained from this only ever impact future g...

That's actually amazing to read. I plan to become a neurologist one day and this is the kinds of studies I want to do. So basically, they took a mutated housekeeping gene and placed it in Mice. Thro...