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Re: stuttering in families

From: J Scott Yaruss
Date: 12 Oct 2009
Time: 17:48:13 -0500
Remote Name: 74.109.245.93

Comments

Hi RM - You've asked an interesting question. We don't know exactly how it starts, but research shows that stuttering does tend to run in families. Not always, but much of the time, it is possible to identify other families members who stutter. Who the "first" one was is probably impossible to determine! In my family, for example, my grandfather stuttered, as did my uncle. My dad did not, and neither did I, though my older daughter did. My younger daughter did not. That's just sort of how it goes. Was my grandfather the first one? Who knows? He didn't know his grandfather... As for what causes stuttering to start in a particular individual, well, that's an even tougher question to answer ;-) We know that there is a genetic predisposition in many cases, as mentioned above, but that still doesn't really explain why it starts for a particular child. I'll let others comment from here... Scott


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