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From: Judy Butler
Date: 06 Oct 2010
Time: 07:19:17 -0500
Remote Name: 173.76.249.199
Please share any information about the possible influences of learning disabilities and stuttering. I am spending a lot of time these days learning about reading since dyslexia seems to be a recurring theme in my private practice for stuttering. "Reading in the Brain" by Stanislas Dehaene (2009, Viking), besides being really interesting, states that "the left temporal lobe remains the prime suspect in our quest for the biological origins of dyslexia" p. 246. I am not in research and so this might sound muddled, but does anyone think that treatment for dyslexia along side treatment for stuttering could increase rate of therapy progress and why that hypothetically might be possible given that they could both be related to linguistic ability? What do we know in 2010 about the relationship between stuttering and learning disabilities? Thank you, Judy