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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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Coalson, Geoffrey A.; Byrd, Courtney T.; Davis, Barbara L. – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2012
The primary purpose of this study was to re-examine the influence of phonetic complexity on stuttering in young children through the use of the Word Complexity Measure (WCM). Parent-child conversations were transcribed for 14 children who stutter (mean age = 3 years, 7 months; SD = 11.20 months). Lexical and linguistic factors were accounted for…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Stuttering, Disabilities, Young Children