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From: Ellen-Marie Silverman
Date: 10/21/01
Time: 7:42:06 PM
Remote Name: 172.152.159.25
Thank you for calling attention to the importance of comparing women and men. That was done in some research by the late Wendell Johnson. A reference to it can be found in the chapter I authored ("The Female Stutterer")for the Ken St. Louis book, The Atypical Stutterer. Also, in some other studies I conducted ---Silverman, E.-M., (198), Communication attitudes of women who stutter, Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 45, 432-539; Silverman, E-M., and Zimmer, C. (1982), Demographic characteristics and treatment experiences of women who stutter, Journal of Fluency Disorders, 7, 273-285; and Silverman, E.-M., (1982), Clinicians' and university students' impressions of women and girls who stutter, Journal of Fluency Disorders, 7, 461-478, I did study both genders or compare behaviors of my female subjects with males subjects tested by others.
All in all, there is room for much more research on this matter. What the research data do suggest and what you have recognized is that we need to look at stuttering as a human behavior which means factoring in to our observations of the speech behavior itself gender, culture, society, family and other influences on the individual.
Ellen-Marie Silverman