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Resilience and Stuttering: Factors that Protect People from the Adversity of Chronic Stuttering
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Craig, Ashley; Blumgart, Elaine; Tran, Yvonne – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2011
Purpose: Chronic disorder can impose a significant negative mental health burden. This research was conducted to explore factors that may protect people from the adversity of chronic stuttering. Method: The study employed a population group cohort design. Participants included 200 adults who have stuttered since childhood, and the sample was…
Descriptors: Stuttering, Self Efficacy, Health Conditions, Predictor Variables
Telehealth Delivery of the Camperdown Program for Adults Who Stutter: A Phase I Trial
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O'Brian, Sue; Packman, Ann; Onslow, Mark – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2008
Purpose: This Phase I trial investigated the viability of telehealth delivery of the Camperdown Program with adults who stutter. This program involves speech restructuring. Method: All treatment was conducted remotely with participant-clinician contact occurring by telephone and e-mail. Results: Ten adults completed the program. The group showed…
Descriptors: Stuttering, Adults, Program Effectiveness, Outcomes of Treatment
Effects of Syntactic Complexity and Sentence-Structure Priming on Speech Initiation Time in Adults Who Stutter
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Tsiamtsiouris, Jim; Cairns, Helen Smith – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2009
Purpose: To test the hypotheses that adults who stutter will be slower in producing syntactically complex sentences than fluent adults and will benefit more from sentence-structure priming than will fluent adults. Method: Adults who stutter (n = 15) and fluent adults (n = 15) participated in 2 experiments. In Experiment 1, adults in both groups…
Descriptors: Sentences, Syntax, Adults, Control Groups
Speeded Verbal Responding in Adults Who Stutter: Are There Deficits in Linguistic Encoding?
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Hennessey, Neville W.; Nang, Charn Y.; Beilby, Janet M. – Journal of Fluency Disorders, 2008
Linguistic encoding deficits in people who stutter (PWS, n = 18) were investigated using auditory priming during picture naming and word vs. non-word comparisons during choice and simple verbal reaction time (RT) tasks. During picture naming, PWS did not differ significantly from normally fluent speakers (n = 18) in the magnitude of inhibition of…
Descriptors: Speech, Reaction Time, Educational Objectives, Linguistics
"My Stammer Doesn't Have to Define Me"
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Everard, Rachel – Adults Learning, 2007
In this article, the author explains why City Lit's work with adults who stammer has won recognition and why the adult education setting is ideally suited for the work. Stammering is a complex disorder that is often misunderstood by the general public. Its impact is frequently underestimated. Stammering can have a profound effect on people's…
Descriptors: Stuttering, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Speech Impairments
Treatment of Chronic Stuttering: Outcomes from a Student Training Clinic
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Block, Susan; Onslow, Mark; Packman, Ann; Gray, Belinda; Dacakis, Georgia – International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 2005
Background: It has been suggested that one way to increase speech pathologists' confidence in working with people who stutter is to provide them with relevant and stimulating clinical experiences during their professional preparation. This paper describes a treatment programme for adults who stutter that is conducted by speech pathology students,…
Descriptors: Stuttering, Clinics, Speech Language Pathology, Foreign Countries