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From: Jim Clarkson Australia
Date: 10/21/00
Time: 11:47:09 PM
Remote Name: 198.142.200.243
Hi. In researching our family tree and through my own observations of stutterers and others in our family and confering with elder members in the past[osbervant academic types]. Of the many people in there hundreds dating back to the 1800s' I have come up with 10 stutterers 9 of which I have had personal contact with one being me.Of these three are females, one female did not learn to speak until age 8 and now speaks with excelent fluency. stutterer? Of the other 2 one being my daughter age 27 the other age 8. Of all these hundreds of people the only definate left handed persons in the family are these two females. According to recent research in Australia, definate L.H.persons are actualy survivers of a twin pregnancy ie' one has died as early as the first few weeks of pregnancy. Could you please breifly relate to me how this may fit in with past research into different types of stuttrering twins, male female etc. Is there a pattern of L.H.in female stutters. In non stuttering twins are there more L.H.in females than males. A hyperthetical question which you dont have to answer. With our family history when and if I ever become a grandparent and I reach into my son our daughters babies basinete if the baby is a female and it reaches out with a little left hand. Do you think a little more care in its upbringing may be in order especialy by the parents. Dont get to serious about this I am not. Kind regards Jim Clarkson.