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From: Steve Stringham
Date: 10/8/03
Time: 9:12:56 AM
Remote Name: 199.33.133.81
As a father of eight children and one who has been involved with youth leadership for twenty-five years, I have noticed a tremendous difference between the speech and language development of girls and boys. It seems that the boys are seriously deficit from birth when compared with girls and don't really catch up (if at all) until late teenage years. There is a great deal of public effort and public law to enforce an equal treatment of boys and girls in their education.
I wonder if we don't put to much pressure on boys to equal the girls in their speech and language development.
Is there any studies that the panel can point me to that discuss the research on stuttering differences between boys and girls, or explain why the male to female ratio exists?
Sincerely, Steve Stringham Pensacola, Florida