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Clinical Observations on Acquired Stuttering
Author(s) -
MAZZUCCHI ANNA,
MORETTI GIACOMO,
CARPEGGIANI PAOLO,
PARMA MARIO,
PAINI PAOLO
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
international journal of language and communication disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.101
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1460-6984
pISSN - 1368-2822
DOI - 10.3109/13682828109011383
Subject(s) - stuttering , psychology , language disorder , communication disorder , audiology , developmental psychology , psychotherapist , clinical psychology , psychiatry , cognition , medicine
Summary Acquired stuttering in adults was studied in sixteen cases. All were males, except one. In all cases, stuttering occurred following cerebral traumatic or vascular lesions which involved the left hemisphere, bilateral involvement being presumed in traumatic cases. In the majority of cases, stuttering was associated with aphasia, but in some cases it appeared clinically isolated. No significant association with speech apraxia, anomia or with signs of incomplete right handedness, was found. In some cases, acquired stuttering appeared as a severe worsening of pre‐existent developmental stuttering. These findings are compared with previous reports, and controversial points as well as the need for further investigation, are emphasized.