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From: Peter Reitzes
Date: 05 Oct 2008
Time: 16:48:06 -0500
Remote Name: 69.22.250.24
Bob, thanks for your question, it is a good one! Greg and Judy did a great job of answering you. I want to add that many people have pointed out that boys often have more difficulties than girls. For example, I work in a school with several classrooms for children with learning disabilities and for children who have speech and/or language problems. In these special classes, most of the students are boys. There is only one girl in each class. Every year I work with about 50 children who have speech and language problems including stuttering. The majority of my students are boys. Most all of my students who stutter are boys. One year, I worked with 8 children who stuttered in my school, all were boys. My students didn’t believe me that girls stuttered. So, we did two things. We watched a great video called “Stuttering: For Kids, By Kids.” This video, by the Stuttering Foundation, features children who stutter including girls who stutter. You can see the video at: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8736850042887806894 We also planned a stuttering workshop at my school (it was kind of a stuttering party). Speech teachers from local schools brought their students who stuttered including some girls who stuttered. It was a lot of fun to hang out with a bunch of students who stuttered and their speech teachers.