Results indicated that increasing age, higher degrees, more coursework, or more clinical experience did not produce more positive connotations of stuttering among 206 speech-language pathologists. Those holding the Certificate of Clinical Competence in Speech-Language Pathology showed more positive connotative responses than the noncertified…

Transcriptions of the speech of 16 adolescent and young adult stutterers and 16 nonstutterers were rated by 12 fourth and fifth year speech/language pathology students as a sample from a stutterer or a nonstutterer. (PHR)

Analysis of lip and jaw motion in 18 stutterers and 10 nonstutterers found that adult stutterers who had been through speech therapy showed significant increases in jaw movement duration and time to peak velocity of the upper lip, lower lip, and jaw. Results suggest that anomalies in stutterers' fluent speech may be the result of acquired…

The study found that stutterers (N=10) were significantly more variable than nonstutterers in their ability to achieve stable fundamental frequency diminution patterns in vowels immediately following stop consonants. Stutterers were not significantly different from the nonstutterers in their ability to achieve a stable fundamental frequency over…

The study investigated differences in causal attributions made by 134 student clinicians taking actor and observer roles in good and poor speech therapy sessions. Clinicians taking the actor role cited client causes more frequently than other causes while clinicians taking the observer role cited clinician causes. (Author/DB)

Response cost (punishment) decreased stuttering below the baserate frequency for three adult male stutterers, but when reintroduced after pairing with reinforcement, one subject's rate of stuttering did not immediately decrease, suggesting that punishment for stuttering may acquire discriminative attributes after systematic pairing with a…

The study with three adult stutterers evaluated the effects of instructions to rate and modify the naturalness of their speech and compared their self evaluations with evaluations of listeners. (Author/DB)

This study, involving an adolescent and adult male with stuttering problems, evaluated modification of the frequency of electroglottograph-measured phonation intervals on stuttering and speech naturalness. Both subjects demonstrated that stuttering could be controlled by modifying the frequency of phonation intervals within short duration ranges,…

Two profoundly hearing-impaired adolescents received systematic speech training to improve their production of two vowel sounds. Both subjects demonstrated significant changes in their production of the two vowels at the acoustic and perceptual levels following treatment, but changes were highly individualized. (DB)

The ability to alter speaking rate was studied in nine adult subjects with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and nine control subjects. Results suggest that the relationship between speaking rate, articulation rate, pause duration, and pause frequency remained largely intact for the dysarthric speakers. Data showed greater dependence on pausing by the…

Three studies of phonological knowledge and generalization were conducted with six functionally misarticulating children, aged 3-4. Results indicated that productive phonological knowledge of the sound system influenced the amount of generalization learning. The extent of generalization learning was associated with the point on the knowledge…