Results indicated that both monolingual and bilingual stutterers were more dysfluent on voiceless consonants; the bilingual stutterers stuttered more on the nasal sounds; and phonetic influences on stuttering might be dependent on the number of languages spoken as well as specific language in which the effects were observed. (Author/CL)

This study attempted to empirically demonstrate the validity of a twofold classification of speech disfluency in adult stutterers. Instrumentation and procedures permitting reliable identification and coding of 9 disfluency behaviors were developed and applied to monologues of 180 adult stutterers. Factor analyses supported the two-factor…

Testing of 17 adult and 25 adolescent stutterers during a 12-month to 24-month postintensive treatment phase revealed that 69% of subjects maintained satisfactory fluency on surprise phone calls at home/work and 80% of subjects rated their speech fluency as good or fair on the Speech Performance Questionnaire. (Author/JDD)