How does neurogenic stuttering differ from other types of fluency disorders?
The symptoms of neurogenic stuttering can be similar to those seen in other fluency disorders. Some communication disorders such as dysarthria, apraxia of speech, palilalia, and aphasia may impair the speaker’s ability to produce smooth and flowing speech production. These problems result from the same types of neurological injury or disease as neurogenic stuttering, and the disorders often co-exist. A diagnosis of neurogenic stuttering might be considered when the disfluency pattern includes the symptoms described above. Occasionally, some individuals may experience psychogenic disfluency. This disorder results in a disfluent speaking pattern but no medical factors or history of developmental stuttering are present. Its appearance may be linked to emotional stress or trauma that the individual has recently experienced. The disorder whose symptoms most resemble those of neurogenic stuttering is developmental stuttering. Developmental stuttering may persist into adulthood. In some cases
