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From: Ed Feuer
Date: 10/10/02
Time: 1:04:42 AM
Remote Name: 142.161.128.92
I would like to see more attempts to achieve differentiation regarding the subjects in these studies with diagnostic imaging tools.
The late Einer Boberg proposed that in stuttering there are different degrees of neurological deficit. To test this idea, researchers can't simply be using "stutterers."
I think good science demands that there be comparisons of what's going on the brains of a variety of people who stutter including males and females, young, old and in-between, more severity and less severity, overt and covert, and immediately before and after participation in intensive fluency shaping programs.
Such differentiation might make researchers have to work harder (starting with the recruitment of such people) but the results would have a greater value.
One size does not fit all.