Women and Stuttering

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Re: Statistics

From: Nora O'Connor
Date: 10/17/02
Time: 2:46:25 PM
Remote Name: 208.32.238.2

Comments

Thank you for your interest in woman and stuttering Aimee. I hope you are finding the ISAD online conference beneficial to you.

From what I understand about one percent of the population stutters and four times as many males as females stutter. This would probably account for the reason that you have not met a female stutterer. Not because female don't seek treatment.

I facilitate a National Stuttering Association chapter support group in San Francisco -- more often than not I have been the only female at the chapter meeting. A few months ago there were five females and seven men at a chapter meeting! The balance was great. But, the amount of "new" people who contact me about the chapter group are overwhelmingly male.

We do exist though! I have dozens of dozens of female friends who stutter! You will meet one of us if you are working in the field.


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