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Clark, Chagit E.; Conture, Edward G.; Frankel, Carl B.; Walden, Tedra A. – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of the present study was to investigate the underlying constructs of the Communication Attitude Test for Preschool and Kindergarten Children Who Stutter (KiddyCAT; Vanryckeghem & Brutten, 2007), especially those related to awareness of stuttering and negative speech-associated attitudes. Method: Participants were 114…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Stuttering, Preschool Children, Kindergarten
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Arnold, Hayley S.; Conture, Edward G.; Key, Alexandra P. F.; Walden, Tedra – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2011
The purpose of this preliminary study was to assess whether behavioral and psychophysiological correlates of emotional reactivity and regulation are associated with developmental stuttering, as well as determine the feasibility of these methods in preschool-age children. Nine preschool-age children who stutter (CWS) and nine preschool-age children…
Descriptors: Evidence, Stuttering, Emotional Response, Medicine
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Walden, Tedra A.; Frankel, Carl B.; Buhr, Anthony P.; Johnson, Kia N.; Conture, Edward G.; Karrass, Jan M. – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2012
This study assessed emotional and speech-language contributions to childhood stuttering. A dual diathesis-stressor framework guided this study, in which both linguistic requirements and skills, and emotion and its regulation, are hypothesized to contribute to stuttering. The language diathesis consists of expressive and receptive language skills.…
Descriptors: Stuttering, Emotional Response, Linguistics, Coping
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Johnson, Kia N.; Walden, Tedra A.; Conture, Edward G.; Karrass, Jan – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2010
Purpose: Emotional regulation of preschool children who stutter (CWS) and children who do not stutter (CWNS) was assessed through use of a disappointing gift (DG) procedure (P. M. Cole, 1986; C. Saarni, 1984, 1992). Method: Participants consisted of 16 CWS and CWNS (11 boys and 5 girls in each talker group) who were 3 to 5 years of age. After…
Descriptors: Play, Emotional Response, Preschool Children, Stuttering
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Johnson, Kia N.; Karrass, Jan; Conture, Edward G.; Walden, Tedra – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2009
The purpose of this study was to investigate whether variations in disfluencies of young children who do (CWS) and do not stutter (CWNS) significantly change their talker group classification or diagnosis from stutterer to nonstutterer, and vice versa. Participants consisted of seventeen 3- to 5-year-old CWS and nine 3- to 5-year-old CWNS, with no…
Descriptors: Age, Stuttering, Preschool Children, Identification
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Schwenk, Krista A.; Conture, Edward G.; Walden, Tedra A. – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2007
This study investigated the maintenance of attention and adaptation to background stimuli of preschool children who do (CWS) and do not stutter (CWNS). Participants were 13 monolingual, Standard American English speaking, 3-5-year-old CWS and 14 CWNS. Results indicated that CWS were significantly more apt than CWNS to attend to or look at changes…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Stuttering, Preschool Children, Monolingualism
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Pellowski, Mark W.; Conture, Edward G. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2005
The purpose of this investigation was to assess the influence of lexical/semantic priming on the speech reaction time of young children who do and do not stutter during a picture-naming task. Participants were 23 children who stutter, age-matched ([+ or -] 4 months) to 23 children who do not stutter, ranging in age from 3;0 (years;months) to 5;11.…
Descriptors: Stuttering, Young Children, Reaction Time, Speech