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From: Dave Corey
Date: 11 Oct 2009
Time: 12:30:20 -0500
Remote Name: 98.163.237.149
Sex-linked socialization practices have been considered as candidate explanations of why disorders are more common in males than females, or vice versa. However, socialization differences have been of little help in understanding the origin of the sex difference in stuttering prevalence. Modern research therefore tends to be oriented around biological or genetic factors in some cases and around more proximal causes in other cases. My research is driven by the latter type of explanation. My hope is that understanding the specific mechanisms that are malfunctioning during stuttered speech will improve our ability to trace the causes of those malfunctions. My own studies are therefore data therefore don’t say much about the possibility that socialization plays a role. Data showing genetic links with stuttering suggest a non-social explanation for the causes of stuttering in general, but I don’t know of data addressing a genetic explanation of individual differences in stuttering recovery. My own sense is that, as are so many other behaviors, stuttering recovery is probably influenced by both genetic and environmental factors, of which socialization could be a part.