This study was undertaken to examine the performance of 23 children who stutter (CWS) and 23 children who do not stutter (CWNS) on three metalinguistic tasks. These included two phonological awareness assessment procedures (The Lindamood Auditory Conceptualization Test (LAC) and a Phoneme Reversal Task) and one modified Grammar Judgments Task…

This study was designed to investigate if persons who stutter differ from persons who do not stutter in the coproduction of different types of consonant clusters, as measured in the number of dysfluencies and incorrect speech productions, in speech reaction times and in word durations. Based on the Gestural Phonology Model of Browman and…

This study investigated how phonetic complexity affects stuttering rate in German and how this changes developmentally. Phonetic difficulty was assessed using Jakielski's index [Motor Organization in the Acquisition of Consonant Clusters, Dissertation/Ph.D. Thesis, University of Texas Austin, 1998] of phonetic complexity (IPC) in which words are…

Background: This paper is intended to contribute to the current debate in relation to persistent stuttering and evidence-based clinical practice. Aims: The paper will describe the authors' intervention framework for persistent stuttering, which is guided by evidence from the fields of stuttering and clinical psychology. It supports the opinion…

Purpose: The purpose of this article is to present a detailed description of a family-focused treatment for preschool children who stutter that addresses communication behaviors and attitudinal reactions that children and their parents may exhibit in reaction to stuttering, as well as a preliminary evaluation of the outcomes of that treatment.…

Purpose: To complete a systematic review, incorporating trial quality assessment, of published research about pharmacological treatments for stuttering. Goals included the identification of treatment recommendations and research needs based on the available high-quality evidence. Method: Multiple readers reviewed 31 articles published between 1970…

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the role of phonological encoding in the silent speech of persons who stutter (PWS) and persons who do not stutter (PNS). Participants were 10 PWS (M=30.4 years, S.D.=7.8), matched in age, gender, and handedness with 11 PNS (M=30.1 years, S.D.=7.8). Each participant performed five tasks: a…

The relationship between grammatical function and disfluency was investigated in 15 normal-speaking children aged 3 years 11 months to 4 years 10 months. (Author)

WRITTEN FOR PARENTS, THIS BOOKLET IS DESIGNED TO HELP PREVENT STUTTERING IN CHILDREN. COMMUNICATION AND SPEECH BETWEEN PARENT AND CHILD IS TRACED DEVELOPMENTALLY FROM BIRTH. THE IMPORTANCE OF PARENTAL ATTITUDES AND ACTIONS TOWARD THE CHILD, SPEECH, AND CONVERSATION IS DISCUSSED. PARENTS ARE GIVEN SUGGESTIONS TO HELP THE DEVELOPMENT OF GOOD SPEECH.…

Systematic evaluation of the task demands of changes in utterance length and complexity among stuttering (N=8) and nonstuttering (N=8) three- through six-year-olds revealed that fluency breakdown was significantly correlated with gradual increases in syntactic complexity for both stuttering and nonstuttering children, as was sentence replication…

The study investigated cerebral organization for visual language processing with 14 adult stutterers. Results showed the right hemisphere was superior for analyzing the concrete words while the left hemisphere was responsible for processing the abstract items suggesting some form of linguistic competition between the two hemispheres of this…

The article presents brief reviews of 20 works of children's fiction in which a character stutters. Noted are ways authors portray such aspects of stuttering as symptomatology, causation, and treatment. (Author/DB)

The study compared five adult stutterers' and five adult nonstutterers' fluent speech patterns produced during one nonshadowed reading and two speech-shadowing conditions (immediate repetition of a heard message). Among results were that stutterers produced fewer speech production errors than nonstutterers during shadowing conditions. (Author/DB)

A study involving 12 preschool stutterers, 12 nonstutterers and their mothers indicated that mothers of nonstutterers interrupted the disfluent speech of stutterers significantly more often than mothers of stutterers. All mothers interrupted children's disfluent speech significantly more than they interrupted children's fluent speech. All children…