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From: Amanda Paez, NYU Graduate Student in SLP
Date: 20 Oct 2008
Time: 22:52:12 -0500
Remote Name: 68.175.47.152
Dr. Tetnowski and Ms. Douglass, My name is Amanda Paez and I am a first year graduate student studying Speech-Language Pathology at New York University. This fall, I am enrolled in Fluency Disorders, a course taught by Ms. Lee Caggiano, MA CCC/SLP,co-founder of FRIENDS, the Association for Young People Who Stutter. I greatly enjoyed reading your article about stuttering and some concomitant disorders, as it has great relevance to my own life. I think that it is very important for students studying fluency disorders in an academic setting, parents, PWS, educators and clinicians to be aware that stuttering is not necessarily an exclusive disorder. Rather, stuttering can be present in a variety of different disorders and syndromes. I would like to know if you have done further research regarding the relationship between stuttering and various psychological disorders such as depression and anxiety in addition to speech, language, neurogenic and learning disorders. I was also wondering if you have generally found a stronger correlation between stuttering and a larger range of related factors, such as congenital disorders, for instance, rather than the relationship between stuttering and acquired disorders. Thank you for your time and consideration. Kindly, Amanda Paez