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Radford, Nola – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2023
As children age, they are less likely to experience spontaneous recovery from stuttering and are likely to develop negative attitudes about talking, necessitating counselling to address these feelings. The current exploratory case study examines children's response to traditional speech therapy to address fluency combined with a programmed message…
Descriptors: Stuttering, Speech Therapy, Clinics, African Americans
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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
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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