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From: Nan Ratner
Date: 02 Oct 2004
Time: 12:20:00 -0500
Remote Name: 152.163.100.10
That is a very good question, because we want to make sure that brain differences we see are more likely to be the cause of stuttering, rather than the brain's adaptation to living with it. Unfortunately, I do not know of any yet published research using children. One body of data that suggests that the physiological differences we see in neuroimaging might be there early in life consists of two recent studies (Foundas et al., Sommers, et al.) that have found anatomical differences in the brains of people who stutter and fluent comparison speakers. Best regards, Nan