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From: kehoe@netcom.com (Thomas David Kehoe)
Subject: Re: Neurological language development in children?
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>brain suffers minor damage to Brocca's or Wernecke's areas while in its
>developmental stages, it can often repair itself by assigning the affected

There will be a study presented in a few weeks about Brocca's
area and stuttering.  Apparently there is different activity
in this area between persons who do and don't stutter.

>Here's a question for someone who knows: do people with severe
>stutters have problems understanding spoken language, reading,
>or writing?  In other words, how is stuttering related to language
>performance?

No, stuttering is a speech disorder, not a language disorder.
There are many persons who stutter who are excellent writers.
Somerset Maughn, David Shields, Paul Johnson, etc.
-- 
"Why my thoughts are my own, when they are in, but when they are out
they are another's." - Susannah Martin, hanged for witchcraft, 1692
Thomas David Kehoe     kehoe@netcom.com     Casa Futura Technologies
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