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From: Ellen-Marie Silverman
Date: 10/6/00
Time: 10:31:08 AM
Remote Name: 205.188.192.181
A less obvious category of individuals who may experience stuttering different from the homogenized, vanilla experience customarily described in the literature is females who stutter. According to research I have published, girls are less likely than boys to be refered by classroom teachers for evaluation/therapy for a stuttering problem in the first place, are more likely to be described as "insane" (than female nonstutterers, male stutterers, and male nonstutters),and, when they do enroll in group treatment for stuttering as adults, frequently are relegated to the status of on-looker in groups typically populated by males. I would like to see more attention being given to individual differences in evaluating and treating people with stuttering problems. Your paper helps. Thanks. Ellen-Marie Silverman