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From: Dale Williams
Date: 10 Oct 2006
Time: 12:57:54 -0500
Remote Name: 131.91.248.210
Good question, Alyssa. And one for which there isn’t an easy answer. In many ways, the nature-nurture separation is a false one. For one thing, our genetics determine in large part how we react to environmental influences. I suppose that’s another way of saying that it all eventually goes back to genetics. Still, it seems plausible to me that a child could be genetically susceptible to stuttering and yet, because the environmental agents were conducive to fluency, the child never developed it (stuttering). In fact, early intervention is, generally speaking, based on this idea. A lot of gray areas here.