Other Causes for Stuttering

Stutters can be acquired late in life, usually through a stroke or other brain trauma, but sometimes from neurosurgical procedures. Rarer still are stutters induced by specific medications. Medications such as antidepressants, antihistamines, tranquilizers and selective serotonin re uptake inhibitors have been known to affect speech in this way. While these afflictions create stutter-like conditions they do not create a stutter in the traditional sense.