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Yes, my husband Bob does have a form of stuttering (PD 7 yrs) and it has been problematic for the past two years. He gets hung up on the letter "S" and this is unfortunate because when he is trying to tell people about the Fourth Australian Multi-Disciplinary Conference on PD in Perth, which is in September 1997, he can't get the word out -- I have known him to say, in desperation "the month before October.." He also is affected by rigidity of his tongue which makes it hard to talk (I imagine it feels like your tongue feels after going to the dentist and having had anaesthetic in your gums) and a strange form of facial dyskinesia which is a sort of a grimace. Tension certainly makes his speech worse. His words also run together - I believe this is a form of "festination." He is experimenting with taking his medication differently to get more mileage - from his Madopar (levodopa medication like Sinemet) --that is before meals (as you are supposed to) and taking less, so that he won't get the dyskinesias. Funnily enough the dyskinesias trouble him most when he lies down to go to sleep, but he can control them by lying on his left side. Two of his neurologists had never seen the sort of facial "dyskinesias" which he has. They are not very pretty. They are not "tardive" dyskinesias, by the way. Bob never stuttered as far as I know. In fact he was a very eloquent teacher with a very lovely deep voice. What larceny this disease causes.. Incidentally, Bob is a little different in that his tremors are only in his legs, not his hands at all. Joy Graham