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From: Ken St. Louis
Date: 02 Oct 2006
Time: 09:03:10 -0500
Remote Name: 157.182.15.42
Dear Joseph, Thanks for your question. I wish we knew the answer to the sex ratio question. A summary of all the data comparing males and females and all their various skills and abilities would be very long indeed. About all we can say for sure is the females seem to be better at some aspects of verbal abilities than males. Males are more likely to have other speech and language problems than females as well as reading, learning, and attention deficit problems. Relative to stuttering, females are more likely than males to recover from stuttering if they begin to stutter at the age of 2-4 years. A related and interesting fact is that those females who do not recover may have more genetic influence behind their stuttering than average males who stutter. I hope this helps. Ken