ABSTRACT
My comments are based on nearly 60 years of experience as someone who stuttered during the first 25 to 30 years of my life and gradually less so since then. The experience of being someone who once stuttered brings with it some useful insights that I have shared with those whom I have helped in the past and hope to share with those I help in the future. I am also speaking as a clinician who, for more than 30 years, continues to try to improve my ability to help people who stutter. I bring the perspective of someone who enjoys conducting research, writing, and speaking about the phenomena of stuttering—how it is that humans are able to speak more, and sometimes less, fluently. I believe that when you study anything for many years, especially if you have some enthusiasm for the task, you can become reasonably proficient. Or, at the very least, you begin to form some definite opinions about the experience and the phenomena.
