**TL;DR summary of the post:** This post discusses the DIVA neurocomputational model to interpret findings on developmental stuttering. It suggests the core issue is a malfunction in the cortico-basal ganglia-thalamocortical loop for speech motor program initiation. The DIVA model distinguishes feedforward and sensory feedback control, highlighting an articulation circuit for muscle activation and an initiation circuit for turning motor programs on/off. Stuttering in persistent developmental stuttering (PDS) is attributed to impaired initiation, sustenance, or termination of motor programs, possibly due to basal ganglia motor loop impairments. Different stuttering patterns (prolonging, blocking, repetitions) result from failures in recognizing context for terminating or initiating phonemes. Impairments in basal ganglia pathways, corticostriatal connectivity, and cortical regions contribute to stuttering. The study proposes stuttering as a system-level problem rather than a localized neural issue. The tips that I extracted from the research, suggest addressing the malfunction in the feedforward control (left-hemisphere), and avoid implementing compensatory responses to the primary deficits in the cortico-BG loop (right-hemisphere).