**What can we learn from this?** So, everybody is different. Importantly, it is possible to have quite severe underlying language and speech deficits and yet still never develop a stutter. This is often the case in people where the cause of the speech or language deficit is well-known and plain for everyone to see – such as, for example, in children with cerebral palsy. In such cases, parents and others tend to accept the dysfluency as “understandable under the circumstances”, and thus tend not to criticize it and tend not to negatively evaluate the child’s performance… so the child never learns to fear his/her dysfluencies and never perceives them as a potential source of punishment or social rejection, so despite their dysfluencies, he/she never starts to stutter.