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Neurological aspects of stuttering: summary overview of scientific findings

Naudine Willemse, Margaretha Viljoen, Catherine Govender
Health SA Gesondheid | Vol 11, No 1 | a215 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/hsag.v11i1.215 | © 2006 Naudine Willemse, Margaretha Viljoen, Catherine Govender | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 10 November 2006 | Published: 10 November 2006

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Naudine Willemse, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Margaretha Viljoen, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Catherine Govender, University of Pretoria, South Africa

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The aim of this article is to provide a summary overview of some of the more important scientific evidence of neurological differences between stutterers and non-stutterers.

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Die doel van hierdie artikel is om ‘n opsommende oorsig te bied van die belangrikste wetenskaplike bewyse vir neurologiese verskille tussen mense wat hakkel en mense wat nie hakkel nie.

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