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Peer reviewedAmbrose, Nicoline Grinager; Cox, Nancy J.; Yairi, Ehud – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1997
Immediate and extended families of 66 stuttering children were investigated to determine frequencies of persistent and recovered stuttering. Recovery was far more common among females than males. Recovery or persistence was found to be transmitted, but the two types are not genetically independent, consistent with hypothesis that both forms share…
Descriptors: Children, Etiology, Genetics, Heredity
