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Treatment for Stuttering in Preschool-Age Children: A Qualitative Document Analysis of Treatment Programs
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Åse Sjøstrand; Kari-Anne Bottegård Naess; Ane Hestmann Melle; Karoline Hoff; Elisabeth Holm Hansen; Linn Stokke Guttormsen – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify commonalities and differences between content components in stuttering treatment programs for preschool-age children. Method: In this document analysis, a thematic analysis of the content was conducted of handbooks and manuals describing Early Childhood Stuttering Therapy, the Lidcombe Program,…
Descriptors: Stuttering, Preschool Children, Intervention, Young Children
Effects of Stuttering Treatment: A Systematic Review of Single-Subject Experimental Design Studies. EBP Briefs. Volume 13, Issue 4
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Murza, Kimberly A.; Vanryckeghem, Martine; Nye, Chad; Subramanian, Anu – EBP Briefs (Evidence-based Practice Briefs), 2019
Clinical Question: For individuals who stutter (P), which behavioral treatment approaches (I, C) are most effective in promoting fluent speech (O)? Method: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Study Sources: CINAHL, CINAHL Plus (with Full Text), ERIC, MEDLINE, PsycINFO, and ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text. The authors also conducted…
Descriptors: Stuttering, Outcomes of Treatment, Program Effectiveness, Participant Characteristics
A Review of Linguistic Factors Associated with Early Childhood Stuttering.
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Wall, Meryl J.; Myers, Florence L. – Journal of Communication Disorders, 1982
The paper summarizes recent thinking on several aspects of early childhood stuttering, including the acquisition of fluency in young children and its relationship to language acquisition, the relationship of normal childhood nonfluencies to early stuttering, stuttering's relationship to language acquisition, and psycholinguistic influences on…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Language Fluency, Linguistics, Speech Skills
Parents' Speech and Children's Stuttering: A Critique of the Literature.
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Nippold, Marilyn A.; Rudzinski, Mishelle – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1995
This critical review of the literature finds little evidence to indicate that parents of children who stutter differ from parents of children who do not stutter in the way they talk with their children. Similarly, there is little support that parents' speech behaviors contribute to children's stuttering or that modifying parents' speech behaviors…
Descriptors: Caregiver Speech, Interpersonal Communication, Parent Child Relationship, Parent Influence
Response Contingent Stimuli and Stuttering: Issues and Implications.
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Prins, David; Hubbard, Carol P. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1988
Experimental studies are reviewed in which stuttering and speech disfluency were subjected to response contingent stimuli (RCS). Research issues are discussed, including response-stimulus contiguity, subject awareness, behavior definitions, stimulus control of responses, subject variability, effects of RCS on nonstuttered speech parameters,…
Descriptors: Contingency Management, Language Fluency, Operant Conditioning, Research Methodology
Temporal Aspects of the Conversations between Children Who Stutter and Their Parents.
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Zebrowski, Patricia M. – Topics in Language Disorders, 1995
This paper reviews studies of conversational turn-management timing behaviors used by children who stutter and their parents. Temporal aspects of conversations between children who stutter and their parents do not differ significantly from parent-nonstuttering child conversations. Parental manipulation of speech rate and response-time latency may…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Connected Discourse, Dialogs (Language), Interpersonal Communication