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Direct linkSawyer, Jean; Yairi, Ehud – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2010
Purpose: Disfluency clusters in preschool children were analyzed to determine whether they occurred at rates above chance, whether they changed over time, and whether they could differentiate children who would later persist in, or recover from, stuttering. Method: Thirty-two children recruited near stuttering onset were grouped on the basis of…
Descriptors: Stuttering, Preschool Children, Incidence, Change
Sawyer, Jean; Yairi, Ehud – American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2006
The relationships between the length of the speech sample and the resulting disfluency data in 20 stuttering children who exhibited a wide range of disfluency levels were investigated. Specifically, the study examined whether the relative number of stuttering-like disfluencies (SLD) per 100 syllables, as well as the length of disfluencies (number…
Descriptors: Sample Size, Stuttering, Severity (of Disability), Speech
