Understanding Sex Differences in Developmental Stuttering

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Re: Rational for these effects

From: Dave Corey
Date: 23 Oct 2009
Time: 18:22:47 -0500
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Comments

We don't yet have any quantification of developmental changes in sex differences in DAF effects. In fact, these developmental changes have been studied very little. When you wrote about associations among "age, sex and how strong DAF effects a client," your use of the word "client" suggests that you are referring to restorative effects of DAF when it is presented to people who stutter. In fact, we have little evidence of any sex differences in DAF effects on people who stutter. My discussion was focused on DAF effects on _normally_fluent_ people. Also note that I don't suggest that DAF effects are smaller in young children than in older children or adults. Rather, the _sex_difference_ in DAF effects may be smaller for younger children and larger for older children and adults. Thanks for your comments.


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