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Cook, Susanne; Rieger, Martina; Donlan, Chris; Howell, Peter – Journal of Fluency Disorders, 2011
Objective: The purpose of this article is to introduce a new assessment designed to measure the orofacial abilities of children who stutter (CWS), the Movement, Articulation, Mandibular and Sensory Awareness (MAMS) Orofacial Assessment. The new instrument was developed and validated to measure orofacial abilities in a comprehensive manner. Design:…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Stuttering, Educational Objectives, Therapy
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Karimi, Hamid; Nilipour, Reza; Shafiei, Bijan; Howell, Peter – Journal of Fluency Disorders, 2011
Bakhtiar, Seifpanahi, Ansari, Ghanadzade and Packman (2010) reported high inter-, and intra-judge agreement of a translation of the Stuttering Severity Instrument (SSI-3) for preschool Persian-speaking children who stutter. Translation of SSI-3 into Persian is desirable as there is no standardised stuttering severity test for that language.…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Stuttering, Translation, Severity (of Disability)
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Howell, Peter; Davis, Stephen; Williams, Sheila M. – Journal of Fluency Disorders, 2006
Objective: The purpose of this study was to see whether participants who persist in their stutter have poorer sensitivity in a backward masking task compared to those participants who recover from their stutter. Design: The auditory sensitivity of 30 children who stutter was tested on absolute threshold, simultaneous masking, backward masking with…
Descriptors: Stuttering, Auditory Perception, Children, Hearing (Physiology)
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Dworzynski, Katharina; Howell, Peter – Journal of Fluency Disorders, 2004
This study investigated how phonetic complexity affects stuttering rate in German and how this changes developmentally. Phonetic difficulty was assessed using Jakielski's index [Motor Organization in the Acquisition of Consonant Clusters, Dissertation/Ph.D. Thesis, University of Texas Austin, 1998] of phonetic complexity (IPC) in which words are…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Stuttering, German, Spanish