The amount and type of disfluences in the speech of language delayed preschoolers receiving language therapy (N=9) and not (N=9) and nine normal controls were examined. Comparisons indicated that Ss who received language therapy had significantly more word and part word repititions than the other two groups. (Author)

A speech therapist obtained 32 audio- and videotapes of his own client-clinician interactions and then evaluated the taped segments by a continuous interaction scoring technique. (GW)

Reported are five studies on the use of delayed auditory feedback (DAF) with stutterers. The first study indicates that sex differences and age differences in temporal reaction were found when subjects (5-, 7-, 9-, 11-, and 13-years-old) recited a nursery rhyme under DAF and NAF (normal auditory feedback) conditions. The second study is reported…

The report details speech therapy services to speech handicapped secondary students during the 1978-1979 academic year. Goals of the speech therapy program are briefly outlined, and descriptive information of the program, participants, and staff activities are included. Results of student, parent, school, and pathologist surveys indicated that the…

Thirty-three speech-language pathologists (SLPs) were interviewed and observed by two teams of evaluators using a generic teacher performance assessment instrument. Interviews and therapy observations were recorded on videotape and all Ss were rated on their overall demonstration of competence by a panel of practitioners and teacher educators. As…

The bibliography, which is one of a series of over 50 similar selected bibliographies dealing with handicapped and gifted children, contains 100 references selected from Exceptional Child Education Abstracts pertaining to research with speech handicapped children. Bibliographic data, availability information, indexing and retrieval terms, and…