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Recent articles and videos

Oxford Dysfluency Conference 2011: Videos Videos of researchers and others at this September 2011 conference.

Stammering risk factors at age 8 Will an eight-year old child still stammer as a teenager?

Pagoclone - disappointing news Dr Robin Lickley of Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh gives an update on this drug which has been undergoing trials for stammering.

People who stammer less perfectionistic? Paul Brocklehurst outlines some of his research, and wonders whether people who stammer may be able to communicate more effectively in certain situations by paying less attention to accuracy.ng 20

First genes found for stammering Dr Dennis Drayna and his team have identified three related genes which are mutated in a proportion of people who stammer.

Notes from Antwerp Norbert Lieckfeldt and Margaret Leahy report from the European Symposium on Fluency Disorders held in Antwerp in April 2010.

New ways of delivering therapy A new anxiety treatment website should go live in summer 2010, said Professor Onslow at the 2009 BSA National Conference. He suggested a 'stepped care' approach to therapy, including telehealth, and talked about research on anxiety.

Stammering children are still bullied Research by Dr Steve Davis OBE and his colleagues at UCL has found that even now children who stammer are less popular and more prone to bullying than their classmates.

Bilingual children at greater risk? Are bilingual children more likely to stammer? Corinne Moffatt considers a new research paper (Winter 2008 Speaking Out).

Should we stop saying "we don't know the cause of stammering"? At the 2008 Oxford Disfluency Conference, Anne Smith of Purdue University suggested that we know a great deal about the factors that cause stammering.

Mind over white matter: Differences in brains of young people who stammer Increasingly studies are finding physical differences in the organisation of brains of people who stammer, but what about children? Kate Watkins is lead author of one of two recent studies looking at brains of young people who stammer.

Events

Stammering Course at UCL Stammering Research and Practice: Three-day Course at University College London. 14th - 16th Februrary 2012 (postponed from September 2011).

7th World Congress on Fluency Disorders 2nd-5th July 2012. Tours, France. The official conference of the International Fluency Association, held every three years. Oral and poster abstracts are invited by 3rd February.

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