Speech samples were recorded of typical speech of 10 stutters, 10 stutters speaking without stuttering under delayed auditory feedback (DAF), and 10 nonstutters speaking normally. Results indicated that stutterer samples were judged as sounding significantly more unnatural than nonstutterer samples, and the DAF stutter-free samples sounded…

Two studies illustrate the utility of listener ratings of speech naturalness for measuring and modifying speech naturalness during stuttering therapy. The program involved five adolescent stutterers receiving an intensive treatment incorporating a prolonged speech procedure. Results showed that speech naturalness ratings could be modified toward a…

Results of a study involving 76 stutterers and 76 nonstutterers (seven to 15 years old) included (1) a right- ear preference for both groups; (2) differences in dichotic stuttering and nonstuttering Ss; and (3) a relationship between stuttering severity and hemispheric dominance dependency on manner of data analysis. (Author/CL)

In a reply to a review of replicated findings on stuttering, the author adds 14 points concerning symptoms, prevalence, incidence, stutterer-nonstutterer differences, and variability of stuttering. He takes exception to the review's statements on treatment and theories of stuttering. (CL)

The paper reviews approaches for the investigation of speech quality in stuttering treatment including speech quality research in areas beyond stuttering, stuttering treatment speech quality research, pertinent findings from nontreatment stuttering research, and issues in recent speech quality management research with stutterers. (Author/DB)

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)

Difficulities in conceptualizing a total therapy process for stutterers within the framework of behavior therapy are examined. (Author/KW)

Systematic evaluation of the task demands of changes in utterance length and complexity among stuttering (N=8) and nonstuttering (N=8) three- through six-year-olds revealed that fluency breakdown was significantly correlated with gradual increases in syntactic complexity for both stuttering and nonstuttering children, as was sentence replication…

Replicated findings from research on stuttering are reviewed according to five major topics (sample subtopics in parentheses): symptoms, prevalence, incidence; stutterer-nonstutterer differences (personality factors, intelligence); variability of stuttering (variation by time, situation, language factors); treatment; and theories. The theory…

A reaction to the review of replicated findings concerning stuttering cites disagreement with the definition of stuttering used and notes implications for findings on treatment, clinical effects, recovery, stutterer-nonstutterer differences, and theory. (CL)

Speech clinicians wrote adjectives they felt best described adult and young male stutterers. Responses indicated a fairly well established stereotype of the stutterer, regardless of age. Most adjectives were judged to be undesirable personality characteristics for males (75 percent of adjectives indicated nervous or fearful, 64 percent shy and…

The investigation surveyed a sample of 650 speech-language pathologists providing services in elementary schools to obtain information on the concomitant problems of stutterers in their caseloads. The results of the survey revealed that 32% of all the young stutterers were free of any other problems. (Author)

Speech-related reaction time measures and fluency-related measures of 24 adult stutterers and a like number of nonstutterers were assessed to determine their diagnostic discriminative power. Findings suggested that both fluency failures and the duration of laryngeal adjustment time are useful diagnostic measures for discriminating stutterers from…