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Re: Stuttering and Intelligence

From: Ken St. Louis
Date: 18 Oct 2012
Time: 15:23:27 -0500
Remote Name: 157.182.15.121

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Paul, Posts by John, Gary, & Charlie provide important perspectives on the issue of the prevalence of stuttering among the mentally impaired population (or whatever the most recent politically correct name is). Gene Cooper wrote a chapter on mentally retarded stutterers in a book entitled "The Atypical Stutterer" which I edited in the late 1970s. In it, he reviewed the extent literature which showed that the prevalence of stuttering (however defined) was three times higher than in the general population. For what it's worth...Ken


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