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Disfluency Patterns and Phonological Skills Near Stuttering Onset
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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
Phonological Process Development with MLU-Referenced Guidelines.
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Prater, Rex Joe; Swift, Roger Williams – Journal of Communication Disorders, 1982
To test D. Stampe's hypothesis about the development of phonological processes, 60 children (21 to 48 months old) were placed into groups based on mean length of utterance (MLU) and chronological age. MLU was found to be the best classification for describing the phonological processes. (Author/SEW)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Articulation (Speech), Child Language, Infants
Phonological Processing and Oral Language Abilities in Fourth-Grade Poor Readers.
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Betourne, Lori S.; Friel-Patti, Sandy – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2003
A study involving 17 fourth graders identified as poor readers found the strongest predictors of work attack skills were phonological awareness and grammatical judgment. The combination of phonological awareness, grammatical judgment, phoneme manipulation, and rapid naming of digits accounted for more than half of the variance in word recognition.…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Grade 4, Grammar, Language Processing
A Quantitative and Qualitative Assessment of Verbal Short-Term Memory and Phonological Processing in 8-Year-Olds with a History of Repetitive Otitis Media
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Majerus, Steve; Amand, Pierre; Boniver, Vincent; Demanez, Jean-Pierre; Demanez, Laurent; Van der Linden, Martial – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2005
Language outcome in children experiencing fluctuant hearing loss due to otitis media (OME) remains highly equivocal. In the current study, we assessed performance on highly sensitive verbal short-term memory (STM), new word learning and phonological processing tasks in 8-year-old children who had suffered from recurrent OME before the age of 3.…
Descriptors: Semantics, Short Term Memory, Language Acquisition, Phonology