Stutter research has officially identified this experience as the “speak alone phenomenon.” As far as researchers know, they claim that stuttering, as identified in neurology, is neurodevelopmental, though they don’t officially know what causes it. It’s said that it could be potentially caused by brain chemistry, speech development patterns, environment, as well as social and emotional effects which is basically saying they have no idea, indicating that the potential for curing stuttering is untapped. The good news is, is that the speak alone phenomenon indicates that stuttering has a large psychological/emotional component to it which denotes that it can be changed or improved if not possibly nearly irradiated. If any of you have seen TED talks on stuttering, there are people who have overcome it completely that talk about this phenomenon. The most common type of stutter is developmental stuttering which is highly suspicious of the paralleling of this phenomenon. If a stutter is something you can develop, then the behaviors and patterns that caused it should, in theory, be able to be unlearned. While neurologists will claim there is potentially altered brain chemistry with those that stutter, and a supposedly suspected underdeveloped basal ganglia, this isn’t consistently proven in that most of us have never been brain scanned to prove this.