What Is Stuttering? What Is Recovery?

It is a disorder of unknown cause or cure, but endless speculation and confusion. Perhaps because of these reasons, stuttering has always been difficult to define. Yet this is where we must begin. After all, in order to examine recovery related to a particular disorder, one must be clear about what that disorder is. Or, as one local support group participant put it, “You can’t talk about recovering if you don’t know what you’re recovering from.”