By not addressing the feelings of the stutterer, we're only dealing with the symptoms. Research is also being conducted to help identify the causes and, possibly, cures for stuttering. It has commonly been perceived as a nervous disorder, but it is not. Nor is it a trait that accompanies timidity or shyness. It is, however, neurological.
Research indicates there is a genetic component of stuttering.
There's something in the interaction of the environment and the development that combines to bring out stuttering. A look at history doesn't clarify the picture either. More recently, Somerset Maugham, rock star Carly Simon, and former National Basketball Association player and television sports commentator Bill Walton were stutterers who managed. Gurrister says that inroads to therapy have been publicized recently at American Speech-Language Hearing Association and National Stuttering Project meetings. However, some speech therapists still find stuttering so challenging to treat that they exclude stutterers from their practices.