Latest Research
Click below for summaries on the latest research into stuttering and other research from the 'Genetics of Stuttering' team.
Does stuttering impact labour market outcomes in the USA? Results from a national longitudinal study
By MCRI | | Blog, New Research, Stuttering Research
“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
By MCRI | | Blog, New Research, Stuttering Research
“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
By MCRI | | Blog, New Research, Stuttering Research
“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)
By MCRI | | New Research, Stuttering Research
“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
By MCRI | | New Research, Research from the team, Stuttering Research
“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.
By MCRI | | New Research, Research from the team, Stuttering Research
"The recovery rate [from stuttering] by the age of 7 years was 65%." -Kefalianos et al 2017
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