Definitions

Further information is available on these pages to explain the following terms:

Stuttered Speech Syndrome: symptoms arising from the interplay of the speech event of stuttering and psychosocial pathology of Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD).
Covert Stuttering: a type of stuttering speech event referring to word omitance, substitution and circumlocution in an effort to avoid overt stuttering.
Stuttering: a speech event that can be either Overt as characterised by repetitions, prolongations and blocks, or Covert as the speaker gives the pretence of fluency by omitting, substituting and circumlocuting to avoid overt stuttering.

Famous People Who Stutter

This famous person was a stutterer. But did they also suffer from Social Anxiety Disorder, the symptoms of which affect between 50 and 75% of people who stutter? Did stuttering dominate almost every thought and influence almost every action? Did they use covert stuttering to hide the extent of their dysfluency? In other words did they suffer Stuttered Speech Syndrome?
Social Anxiety Scale

Take the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale Test to assess whether social phobia plays a role in your life across a variety of situations.
Feature Article

What is Stuttering? -- defining stuttering from the speaker's viewpoint by Dr Mark Irwin. International Stuttering Awareness Day Online Conference 11, 2008.
Contact

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