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From: Nan Ratner
Date: 23 Oct 2006
Time: 12:14:34 -0500
Remote Name: 129.2.25.203
With all due respect, we need to be careful about how we use the term environment; in genetics, it is not just "childrearing" or "societal attitudes", which is how it is interpreted in stuttering. It can be as basic as the different uterine and birth conditions twins experience, which is why virtually all undoubtedly genetic conditions show SOME degree of discordance in identical twins. I really think we need to be careful how we use this term in fluency disorders, because environment has become very much more synonymous with the issue of parenting and listener responses than it is in any other field.