title: General vulnerability to stuttering: The experience of stuttering and conditions bringing about invulnerability.
abstract: General vulnerability to stuttering is the broad awareness of stuttering and the ever-present, experiential sense of a person who stutters (PWS). It is defined by stuttering in all its forms and the awareness of its presence, both in moments of stuttering and moments of perceivably fluent speech. Under the heading of general vulnerability to stuttering is specific vulnerability to stuttering, which includes the actual events of stuttering (i.e., overt symptoms, covert symptoms, subperceptual stuttering, and anticipation of stuttering). The differentiation between the two is that specific vulnerability requires a specific moment of stuttering where general vulnerability does not.
authors.affiliation: Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, College of Allied Health Sciences, Mail Stop 668, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858-4353, United States. Electronic address: brileypa@ecu.edu.
authors.forename: P M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Briley
authors.affiliation: Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, College of Allied Health Sciences, Mail Stop 668, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858-4353, United States.
authors.forename: J S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Kalinowski
mesh_terms: D001294:Attitude to Health; D003142:Communication; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D013060:Speech / Q000502:physiology; D013070:Speech Therapy / Q000379:methods; D013342:Stuttering / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000523:psychology; D014705:Verbal Behavior / Q000502:physiology