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Re: Male vs. Female Stutters

From: Klaas Bakker
Date: 22 Oct 2005
Time: 12:14:46 -0500
Remote Name: 12.214.28.114

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I am sure there is much more behind it. To begin with there may be reasons why there is a slight delay in the linguistic domain for male persons who stutter to begin with (which is of course not true for all individuals who stutter). Gender differences in the organization of parts of the brain, differential effects of gender related hormones, differential genetic transfer patters could all be related to why there are so many more males who stutter compared to females. An important additional aspect is that the gender difference appears to be growing with age as well.


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