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Throneburg, Rebecca Niermann; Yairi, Ehud – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1994
This study compared duration characteristics of single-syllable whole-word repetitions and part-word repetitions in the speech of 20 preschool children who stuttered, recorded near the onset of their stuttering, to those of 20 nonstuttering children. The duration of silent intervals between spoken segments within repetitions was found to be…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Sound Spectrographs, Speech, Stuttering

Yairi, Ehud; Hall, Kelly Dailey – Journal of Communication Disorders, 1993
This study compared duration characteristics of single repetitions of single-syllable words in the speech of 15 preschool children near the onset of stuttering to those of 18 nonstuttering children. There appeared to be a tendency for repetitions of very early stutterers to be faster than repetitions of nonstuttering children. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Speech Acts, Speech Impairments, Speech Skills

Jones, Mark; Onslow, Mark; Harrison, Elisabeth; Packman, Ann – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2000
A study investigated whether age, gender, period from onset to treatment, and stuttering severity related to the required treatment time of 250 preschoolers who completed the Lidcombe Program. Data indicate that, for a short period after stuttering onset, a short delay in treatment did not appear to increase treatment time. (Contains references.)…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Outcomes of Treatment, Performance Factors, Predictor Variables