But in a published commentary on the research,Simon Fisher, a speech and language researcher at the Wellcome Trust Center for Human Genetics at Oxford University cautions that before researchers can develop a drug therapy for stuttering,they will need to learn much more about the precise biochemical mechanism of the disorder.

VOA: standard.2010.02.11

An article on the discovery of a gene associated with stuttering, and the commentary by Simon Fisher, are published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine.

VOA: standard.2010.02.11