Progress and needs in the genetics of stuttering
| Autor: | Susan Felsenfeld |
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| Rok vydání: | 1996 |
| Předmět: |
Linguistics and Language
Stuttering Genetic inheritance Cognitive Neuroscience Interpretation (philosophy) media_common.quotation_subject Principal (computer security) Family aggregation Experimental and Cognitive Psychology LPN and LVN medicine.disease Language and Linguistics Developmental psychology Speech and Hearing Communication disorder medicine Language disorder medicine.symptom Psychology Cognitive psychology Diversity (politics) media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Fluency Disorders. 21:77-103 |
| ISSN: | 0094-730X |
| DOI: | 10.1016/0094-730x(96)00017-4 |
| Popis: | Although references to the familial aggregation of stuttering have appeared in the speech-language literature for over 50 years, only a handful of well-designed behavior genetic investigations of stuttering have been performed. In response to this puzzling lack of data, the present review has three principal objectives. The first is to provide a critical analysis of the most influential behavior genetic studies of stuttering completed between 1960 and the present, with particular emphasis on methodological caveats that limit their interpretation. Second, the means by which genetic and related neurophysiological studies can increase our understanding of the nature of stuttering are explored. Finally, suggestions for future research are presented that highlight the range and diversity of projects that can be included under the umbrella of genetic investigations. It is argued that scholars in the field of communication disorders must examine the priority that molecular and behavioral genetic investigations will receive in the future, since without a unified commitment to support such projects philosophically and financially, additional progress in this area will not be forth-coming. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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