The Prevalence of Stuttering in Patients with Type 1 Diabetes

John Van Borsel, Katia Wauters and Mimi Giri

West (1943) claimed that stuttering is absent among those with diabetes, referring to “a search of case histories of thousands of diabetics” Others, however, did report the existence of diabetic stutterers (Boldon, 1955; Van Riper, 1971). This paper reports a sample survey investigation of the prevalence of stuttering in individuals with Type 1 diabetes at the Ghent University. Results show that stuttering does occur in individuals with diabetes and also indicate that the prevalence of stuttering in the population with diabetes is not different from that of the general population.