Understanding Sex Differences in Developmental Stuttering

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Rational for these effects

From: Greg Linge
Date: 21 Oct 2009
Time: 19:34:34 -0500
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I found this article extremely interesting. I am a graduate student at Western Carolina University and we have discussed the higher prevalence of dysfluency in males over females. I did not consider that DAF would play a role in that. You seemed to mention a ratio between age, sex and how strong DAF effects a client. Is there actually a ratio that could be quantified between those factors? Personally it doesn't make sense that younger children would be affected less by DAF, I would expect them to experience more of an effect considering their developing language skills. Why would an older client with an already established language base be more likely to have their fluency disrupted?


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