SEVERE ACQUIRED STUTTERING FOLLOWING INJURY OF THE LEFT SUPPLEMENTARYMOTOR REGION - A CASE-REPORT

Stuttering secondary to nervous system damage (neurogenic stuttering) has been considered not to have any localizing significance. Recently, it has been suggested, though, that stuttering due to damage of the s upplementary motor region might yet represent a specific constellation of dysfluencies. Ackermann et al. (1996, Aphasiology 1O, 409-417), pu t forward the suggestion that in stuttering associated with supplement ary motor region involvement dysfluencies are restricted to word-initi al position and are absent during sentence repetition and reading alou d. We present a case to the contrary in this article. (C) 1998 Elsevie r Science Inc.