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Penttilä, Nelly; Korpijaakko-Huuhka, Anna-Maija; Kent, Ray D. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2018
Purpose: The aim of this study is to investigate how speech fluency in typical and atypical speech is perceptually assessed by speech-language pathologists (SLPs). Our research questions were as follows: (a) How do SLPs rate fluency in speakers with and without neurological communication disorders? (b) Do they differentiate the speaker groups? and…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Speech Skills, Language Fluency, Speech Impairments
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Kent, Ray D. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 1983
The author responds to a review of replicated findings about stuttering and examines issues related to its possible genetic source, the role of hemispheric assymetries, and fluency-inducing conditions. A theoretical framework for the replicated findings is explored. (CL)
Descriptors: Cerebral Dominance, Genetics, Literature Reviews, Stuttering
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Kent, Ray D. – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2000
This article reviews issues in speech motor control and a class of communication disorders known as motor speech disorders that include dysarthrias, apraxia of speech, developmental apraxia of speech, developmental stuttering, acquired (neurogenic and psychogenic) stuttering, and cluttering. Assessment, classification, and treatment of these…
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Classification, Communication Disorders