The paper reviews approaches for the investigation of speech quality in stuttering treatment including speech quality research in areas beyond stuttering, stuttering treatment speech quality research, pertinent findings from nontreatment stuttering research, and issues in recent speech quality management research with stutterers. (Author/DB)

Fourteen right-handed stutterers and 14 normal speakers responded to monaurally presented stimuli with their right and left hands. Results suggested a bilateral model of neurolinguistic organization for stutterers in which both hemispheres must participate simultaneously in the decoding process. (Author/DB)

The author responds to a review of replicated findings about stuttering and examines issues related to its possible genetic source, the role of hemispheric assymetries, and fluency-inducing conditions. A theoretical framework for the replicated findings is explored. (CL)

When contingency management procedures were applied to the secondary behavioral deviancies of 2 stutterers, both the secondary problems and the stuttering were reduced. (MH)

Difficulities in conceptualizing a total therapy process for stutterers within the framework of behavior therapy are examined. (Author/KW)

Results indicated that increasing age, higher degrees, more coursework, or more clinical experience did not produce more positive connotations of stuttering among 206 speech-language pathologists. Those holding the Certificate of Clinical Competence in Speech-Language Pathology showed more positive connotative responses than the noncertified…

The paper describes a public school stuttering treatment program for a 12-year-old student that combined long-term nonintensive and short-term intensive schedules. Clinical methodology and results of treatment, including a one-year followup evaluation, are discussed. (Author)

This study investigated whether neuromotor differences between adults who stutter (n=10) and gender- and age-matched non-stuttering adults (n=10) are not limited to the movements involved in speech production. Results revealed significant differences between groups on measures of lip and jaw closing (but not opening) movements during speech and in…

Comparison of 10 stuttering and 10 nonstuttering young adult subjects on self-paced rhythmic tasks at various rates found that the stutterers performed more slowly than the nonstutterers and were less variable than nonstutterers suggesting less flexible systems more susceptible to breakdown. (Author/DB)

The study investigated the reaction times in the fluent speech utterances of 20 adult stutterers and 20 nonstutterers. Results indicated that reaction times for longer utterances and for utterances requiring minimal preparation were longer for stutterers than for nonstutterers, suggesting stutterers may have difficulty in motor programing of…

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…

Conversational speech of five children who stutter was recorded and then portions manipulated to modify interval duration and vowel duration. Results indicated that both interval and vowel durations moderately affected listeners' perception of stuttering. Generally, repetitions with short vowel and interval durations were judged as more…

The purpose of this study was to use an age-appropriate version of the sentence-structure priming paradigm (e.g., K. Bock, 1990; K. Bock, H. Loebell, & R. Morey, 1992) to assess experimentally the syntactic processing abilities of children who stutter (CWS) and children who do not stutter (CWNS). Participants were 16 CWS and 16 CWNS between the…