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The Effects of Parent-Focused Slow Relaxed Speech Intervention on Articulation Rate, Response Time Latency, and Fluency in Preschool Children Who Stutter
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Sawyer, Jean; Matteson, Colleen; Ou, Hua; Nagase, Takahisa – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2017
Purpose: This study investigated the effects of an intervention to reduce caregivers' articulation rates with children who stutter on (a) disfluency, (b) caregiver and child's articulation rates, and (c) caregiver and child's response time latency (RTL). Method: Seventeen caregivers and their preschool children who stuttered participated in a…
Descriptors: Reaction Time, Articulation (Speech), Preschool Children, Stuttering
Assessing Disfluencies in School-Age Children Who Stutter: How Much Speech Is Enough?
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Gregg, Brent A.; Sawyer, Jean – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2015
The question of what size speech sample is sufficient to accurately identify stuttering and its myriad characteristics is a valid one. Short samples have a risk of over- or underrepresenting disfluency types or characteristics. In recent years, there has been a trend toward using shorter samples because they are less time-consuming for…
Descriptors: Stuttering, Speech Language Pathology, Diagnostic Tests, Disability Identification
Characteristics of Disfluency Clusters over Time in Preschool Children Who Stutter
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Sawyer, Jean; Yairi, Ehud – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2010
Purpose: Disfluency clusters in preschool children were analyzed to determine whether they occurred at rates above chance, whether they changed over time, and whether they could differentiate children who would later persist in, or recover from, stuttering. Method: Thirty-two children recruited near stuttering onset were grouped on the basis of…
Descriptors: Stuttering, Preschool Children, Incidence, Change
Differences of Articulation Rate and Utterance Length in Fluent and Disfluent Utterances of Preschool Children Who Stutter
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Chon, HeeCheong; Sawyer, Jean; Ambrose, Nicoline G. – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate characteristics of four types of utterances in preschool children who stutter: perceptually fluent, containing normal disfluencies (OD utterance), containing stuttering-like disfluencies (SLD utterance), and containing both normal and stuttering-like disfluencies (SLD+OD utterance).…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Stuttering, Correlation, Preschool Children
Influences of Rate, Length, and Complexity on Speech Disfluency in a Single-Speech Sample in Preschool Children Who Stutter
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Sawyer, Jean; Chon, HeeCheong; Ambrose, Nicoline G. – Journal of Fluency Disorders, 2008
The purpose of the present study was (1) to determine whether speech rate, utterance length, and grammatical complexity (number of clauses and clausal constituents per utterance) influenced stuttering-like disfluencies as children became more disfluent at the end of a 1200-syllable speech sample [Sawyer, J., & Yairi, E. (2006). "The effect of…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Sample Size, Stuttering, Morphemes
The Effect of Sample Size on the Assessment of Stuttering Severity
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Sawyer, Jean; Yairi, Ehud – American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2006
The relationships between the length of the speech sample and the resulting disfluency data in 20 stuttering children who exhibited a wide range of disfluency levels were investigated. Specifically, the study examined whether the relative number of stuttering-like disfluencies (SLD) per 100 syllables, as well as the length of disfluencies (number…
Descriptors: Sample Size, Stuttering, Severity (of Disability), Speech