New Viewpoints on Stuttering

Final part-word repetitions in school-age children: Two case studies

“…Initial syllable or sound repetition is one of the features that commonly occurs in developmental stuttering (Bloodstein, 1995), but its presence is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for use of the term. Conversely, Froeschels (1961) declared that stuttering is absent from the ends of words, and if this view is taken literally, then final part-word repetition cannot be classified as stuttering. Other writers disagree, however.…”

Another Case of Word-Final Disfluencies

“…From the above review it is clear that contrary to Froeschel's [14] claim, wordfi nal disfl uencies are not nonexistent, and that contrary to Canter's [6] opinion, they are not a distinguishing feature of neurogenic stuttering. It also appears that wordfi nal disfl uencies usually involve repetition of fi nal phones.…”

Neuro-Psychiatric Aspects of Spastic Dysphonia

“…He observes t h a t this disease p resen ts a n a ppreciable in te rest on the etio p ato g en ic prism because it can be found as a symi>tom o f organic neurological diseases like tab e s, m u ltiple sclerosis, p o st-e n ce p h alitic residues and in som e " dysendocrinias" , specially of th e p a ra th y ro id , o f th e su p ra ren a l cortex and in cases o f com pressive tu m o rs o f th e r e c u rre n t: b u t th e a u th o rs agree in considering th e psychogenic causes m uch m ore freq u e n t and stress overall th e n e u rasth e n ic and th e obsessive psychoneurosis. And w e believe th a t here th e o p p o rtu n ity com es to q u o te w h at Froeschels [94], v e ry pro fou n d ly , observed in s tu tte rin g : " E x a c t clinical observ atio n of the m any th o u sa n d eases 1 h ave seen revealed th a t no tw o cases ever h a d id entical sym ptom s. T h is fact rises fu n d a m e n ta l q u estio n , n am ely, how could th is be so if th e supposed ab n o rm al v e g etativ e nervous system or o th e r organic conditions were the basis for th e s t u t terin g w hich in each p a tie n t has a different clinical pictu re. T he o nly answ er is th a t th e s tu tte rin g sy m p to m s arc an in d iv id u a ls m ore o r less conscious m en ta l c o n stru c tio n ."…”