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Speech Disfluency in School-Age Children's Conversational and Narrative Discourse
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Byrd, Courtney T.; Logan, Kenneth J.; Gillam, Ronald B. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2012
Purpose: This study was designed to (a) compare the speech fluency of school-age children who do and do not stutter (CWS and CWNS, respectively) within 2 standard diagnostic speaking contexts (conversation and narration) while also controlling for speaking topic, and (b) examine the extent to which children's performance on such discourse tasks is…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Stuttering, Narration, Story Telling
Speaking Rate Characteristics of Elementary-School-Aged Children Who Do and Do Not Stutter
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Logan, Kenneth J.; Byrd, Courtney T.; Mazzocchi, Elizabeth M.; Gillam, Ronald B. – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2011
Purpose: To compare articulation and speech rates of school-aged children who do and do not stutter across sentence priming, structured conversation, and narration tasks and to determine factors that predict children's speech and articulation rates. Method: 34 children who stutter (CWS) and 34 age- and gender-matched children who do not stutter…
Descriptors: Sentences, Speech Communication, Articulation (Speech), Stuttering