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Winslow, Mary; Guitar, Barry – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1994
This study examined the effects of structured conversational turn-taking on disfluencies and speech rate of a boy (age 5) who stuttered, based on dinner-time conversations in the subject's home. Results indicated that disfluencies decreased when structured conversational turn-taking was instituted and increased when turn-taking conditions were not…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Children, Connected Discourse, Performance Factors
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Bloodstein, Oliver – Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 1974
Descriptors: Case Studies, Conceptual Schemes, Exceptional Child Research, Language Patterns
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Guitar, Barry; And Others – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1992
Two studies of a single case (a 5-year-old girl) considered variables in indirect stuttering treatment. In the first study, mother's speech rate was found to correlate with the child's stuttering; in the second study, different parent variables were found to relate to either primary (effortless) or secondary (tense) stuttering. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Emotional Problems, Interaction, Interpersonal Communication