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Re: WICH CRAFT

From: Judy Kuster
Date: 02 Oct 2006
Time: 11:43:10 -0500
Remote Name: 134.29.31.35

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Joseph, the answer to your question is similar to the answer to Joshua's question above only he asked about treatment and your question is about cause of stuttering. Throughout history, and even now, there are many ideas about how what causes stuttering including witchcraft. As I answered to Joshua -- Some people call these ideas "folk myths." I have collected some of those ideas and put them on the Stuttering Home Page (www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster/Infostuttering/folkmyths.html). Joseph Lukong, Jonas Berinyuy, and Acheng Thomas from Cameroon and Moussa Dao from Burkina Faso have shared some of these "folk myths" on what people in their countries thought caused stuttering on a past ISAD online conference. Their papers are linked to the folk myths page URL provided above. I encourage you to read their papers. This conference, as well as learning as much as you can about stuttering on websites such as the two listed in the introduction to this conference will provide you with a lot of good information about stuttering.


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