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The Genetics of Stuttering Study
  • About the Study
    • What is involved?
    • How will we investigate the genetics of stuttering?
    • Investigator Profiles
    • FAQs
  • About Stuttering
    • About Stuttering
    • Causes of Stuttering
      • Genetics of Stuttering
      • Brain Basis of Stuttering
    • Latest research
    • References
    • Useful Links
  • For Researchers
    • Genetics of Stuttering Consortium
  • News
  • Contact

New Research

New research from the study team: We found a new gene that causes a neurodevelopmental disorder, with speech impairment.

7 August 2019

“We identified seven affected females in four pedigrees with likely pathogenic variants in ZNF142” – Khan et al. 2019

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How many children who stutter also have ADHD? A retrospective clinical audit (review of medical files)

26 July 2019

One-half (50%) of the children who stutter presented with elevated ADHD symptoms. This group needed 25% more clinical treatment visits to achieve successful fluency. – Druker et al, 2019

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Does stuttering impact labour market outcomes in the USA? Results from a national longitudinal study

9 July 2019

“Stuttering was associated with reduced earnings and other gender-specific disadvantages in the labor market.” – Gerlach et al., 2018

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Does stuttering impact educational and employment outcomes in the UK? Findings from surveys completed by a birth cohort study

9 July 2019

“These findings fail to support the belief that stuttering has a negative impact on education and employment.” – McAllister, Collier & Shepstone, 2017

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Brain differences in people who stutter. A systematic review of neuroimaging literature on developmental stuttering

2 July 2019

“Overall… there are widespread functional and structural brain differences between [adults and children] who stutter and their fluent peers…” – Etchell et al 2018

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Are children who stutter likely to have different behavioural, emotional and social development? Results from the longitudinal Millennium Cohort Study (UK)

18 June 2019

“Children who stutter may begin to show impaired behavioural, emotional and social development at early as age 3, and these difficulties are well established in older children who stutter”
– McAllister, 2016

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Are children who stutter more anxious than those who don’t? Results from a community sample of 11 year old children with persistent stuttering

18 June 2019

“We found no evidence that … 11 year old children who stutter were more anxious than those who had recovered from stuttering and nonstuttering controls” – Smith et al. 2017

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What happens between 4 and 7 years? An Australian population based profile of children who recovered from stuttering.

18 June 2019

“The recovery rate [from stuttering] by the age of 7 years was 65%.” -Kefalianos et al 2017

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Recent Posts

  • Stuttering – all in the family (name)
  • Now recruiting in New Zealand!
  • A stuttering memoir
  • Learning to embrace life with a stutter
  • End of 2019 update!
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This project is being funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), and has been approved by the Royal Children's Hospital Human Research Ethics Commitee in Australia (RCH HREC Reference Number 37353), and the New Zealand Health and Disability Ethics Committee (20/CEN/63). If you have any concerns about the project or the way it is being conducted, and would like to speak to someone independent of the project, please contact: Director, Ethics & Research, The Royal Children’s Hospital on telephone: (03) 9345 5044.

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