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Gregg, Brent Andrew; Yairi, Ehud – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2012
There is a substantial amount of literature reporting the incidence of phonological difficulties to be higher for children who stutter when compared to normally fluent children, suggesting a link between stuttering and phonology. In view of this, the purpose of the investigation was to determine whether, among children who stutter, there are…
Descriptors: Stuttering, Phonology, Preschool Children, Speech Language Pathology
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Chon, HeeCheong; Sawyer, Jean; Ambrose, Nicoline G. – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate characteristics of four types of utterances in preschool children who stutter: perceptually fluent, containing normal disfluencies (OD utterance), containing stuttering-like disfluencies (SLD utterance), and containing both normal and stuttering-like disfluencies (SLD+OD utterance).…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Stuttering, Correlation, Preschool Children
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Tasko, Stephen M.; McClean, Michael D.; Runyan, Charles M. – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2007
Participants of stuttering treatment programs provide an opportunity to evaluate persons who stutter as they demonstrate varying levels of fluency. Identifying physiologic correlates of altered fluency levels may lead to insights about mechanisms of speech disfluency. This study examined respiratory, orofacial kinematic and acoustic measures in 35…
Descriptors: Stuttering, Severity (of Disability), Speech, Speech Evaluation