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Speech Disfluency in School-Age Children's Conversational and Narrative Discourse
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Byrd, Courtney T.; Logan, Kenneth J.; Gillam, Ronald B. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2012
Purpose: This study was designed to (a) compare the speech fluency of school-age children who do and do not stutter (CWS and CWNS, respectively) within 2 standard diagnostic speaking contexts (conversation and narration) while also controlling for speaking topic, and (b) examine the extent to which children's performance on such discourse tasks is…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Stuttering, Narration, Story Telling
Speaking Rate Characteristics of Elementary-School-Aged Children Who Do and Do Not Stutter
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Logan, Kenneth J.; Byrd, Courtney T.; Mazzocchi, Elizabeth M.; Gillam, Ronald B. – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2011
Purpose: To compare articulation and speech rates of school-aged children who do and do not stutter across sentence priming, structured conversation, and narration tasks and to determine factors that predict children's speech and articulation rates. Method: 34 children who stutter (CWS) and 34 age- and gender-matched children who do not stutter…
Descriptors: Sentences, Speech Communication, Articulation (Speech), Stuttering
Selected Temporal, Grammatical, and Phonological Characteristics of Conversational Utterances Produced by Children Who Stutter.
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Logan, Kenneth J.; Conture, Edward G. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1997
Clause, syllable, and response latency characteristics of conversational utterances were assessed in 14 boys who stuttered and 14 normally fluent boys. Findings suggest that changes in the number of clausal constituents that must be constructed, stored, or coordinated within an utterance may influence the likelihood of speech errors and, hence,…
Descriptors: Children, Difficulty Level, Grammar, Language Impairments
Grammatical Characteristics of Children's Conversational Utterances that Contain Disfluency Clusters.
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Logan, Kenneth J.; LaSalle, Lisa R. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1999
Comparison of disfluent conversational utterances of 14 children who stutter and 14 children (mean age of both groups 52 months) who do not stutter found that for both groups, disfluency clusters were typically produced at clause onset and within the most complex linguistic contexts and that they reflect the effects of producing multiple syntactic…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Child Language, Children, Difficulty Level