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From: Ken St. Louis
Date: 19 Oct 2006
Time: 12:16:45 -0500
Remote Name: 157.182.15.42
Dear Fiona, Personally, I would come down in the middle somewhere, perhaps more on the side of genetics. Clearly one's heredity influences the likelihood he or she will stutter. Take a look at the thread above under "Gene for stuttering? maciste ABDOULLAH (Mauritania) 06 Oct 2006." For example, it is true that if one identical twin stutters, the other is likely to stutter as well. Clearly, too, the environment plays a role. For the identical twin research I just mentioned, sometimes one will stutter and the other will not. This suggests that there must be more than common genetic makeup going on here. More to the point, there are many, many stutterers for whom no stuttering relatives are reported. I hope this helps. Ken