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Effectss of Gradual Increases in Sentence Length and Complexity on Children's Dysfluency.

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Ratner, Nan Bernstein; Sih, Catherine Costa – Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 1987

Systematic evaluation of the task demands of changes in utterance length and complexity among stuttering (N=8) and nonstuttering (N=8) three- through six-year-olds revealed that fluency breakdown was significantly correlated with gradual increases in syntactic complexity for both stuttering and nonstuttering children, as was sentence replication…

Descriptors: Preschool Children, Primary Education, Speech Skills, Stuttering

Caregiver-Child Interactions and Their Impact on Children's Fluency: Implications for Treatment

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Ratner, Nan Bernstein – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2004

There is a relatively strong focus in the stuttering literature on the desirability of selected alterations in parental speech and language style in the management of early stuttering. In this article, the existing research support for such recommendations is evaluated, together with relevant research from the normal language acquisition…

Descriptors: Language Fluency, Outcomes of Treatment, Stuttering, Parenting Styles