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Snyder, Greg; Williams, Molly Grace; Adams, Caroline; Blanchet, Paul – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2020
Purpose: This study measured between-group differences in perceived speech skills and personality characteristics of a 12-year-old boy who stutters as a function of a factual stuttering disclosure statement, delivered by the boy who stutters, his "mother," or his "teacher." Method: Two hundred seventeen college-aged adults were…
Descriptors: Stuttering, Speech Skills, Personality Traits, Early Adolescents
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Smits-Bandstra, Sarah; De Nil, Luc – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2009
Two studies compared the accuracy and efficiency of initiating oral reading of nonsense syllables by persons who stutter (PWS) and fluent speakers (PNS) over practise. Findings of Study One, comparing 12 PWS and 12 PNS, replicated previous findings of slow speech sequence initiation over practise by PWS relative to PNS. In Study Two, nine PWS and…
Descriptors: Speech Skills, Stuttering, Oral Reading, Syllables
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Blomgren, Michael; Goberman, Alexander M. – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2008
The goal of this study was to evaluate stuttering frequency across a multidimensional (2 x 2) hierarchy of speech performance tasks. Specifically, this study examined the interaction between changes in length of utterance and levels of speech rate stability. Forty-four adult male speakers participated in the study (22 stuttering speakers and 22…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Speech, Stuttering, Program Effectiveness
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Bajaj, Amit; Hodson, Barbara; Westby, Carol – Journal of Fluency Disorders, 2005
Meta issues in stuttering were examined by analyzing verbal-descriptive data drawn from structured interviews with 23 male children who stutter (CWS) and their 23 fluent male peers. Participants described others' "good" and "bad" talk behaviors and provided their self-appraisals as talkers. Analysis of interview transcripts suggested that CWS…
Descriptors: Stuttering, Educational Objectives, Educational Research, Interviews