Analysis of the Sibship Patterns of Stutterers
- 1 September 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Speech Language Hearing Association in Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
- Vol. 24 (3) , 460-462
- https://doi.org/10.1044/jshr.2403.460
Abstract
Analyses of birth rank, age separation, and the frequency of stutterers in birth ranks before and after the proband were undertaken for the purpose of verifying or disproving conjectures made by other authors on possible relationships between family structures and stuttering. Results, based on data drawn from over 300 sibships, showed (a) stutterers were randomly distributed among the birth ranks, (b) the age separation of the siblings was independent of stuttering status, and (c) the frequency of stutterers in birth ranks before the proband and the frequency of stutterers in birth ranks after the proband were not significantly different.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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