Many recent news interviews and articles have made a matter of fact declaration that "stuttering is not caused by trauma."  It's true that young preschool children do not begin to stutter because of trauma.  Stuttering is best classified as a neurological disorder.  Now let's look at the role that traumatic experiences play in the complex communication disorder called stuttering- or stammering in the UK.   Teasing, bullying, mimicking, stupid and harmful comments are traumatic for the person who stutters (pws).  The pws develops anxiety, avoidance, and shame as a result of the traumatic experiences of said hurtful moments of stuttering.  The pws who stutters can also feel ashamed and remember avoiding talking (i.e., declining a reading at a wedding).  The CDC researched and discovered that 61% of adults remember Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE).  To honor,understand, and to effectively help pws the life experience of stuttering must become clear.  The personal experience of trauma within the pws is responsible for "the iceberg of stuttering" and the "giant in chains complex."  Listen to this and other podcasts of mine that examine fear and the psychological parts of stuttering.    

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