Sympathetic arousal of young children who stutter during a stressful picture naming task

Conclusions Findings were taken to be consistent with non-physiological results indicating an association between emotional processes and childhood stuttering. This association, at least for this cross-sectional study of tonic skin conductance level (SCL) during a picture-naming task, was moderated by children's chronological age. Such developmental differences may be associated with various processes, for example, attention, cognition, or physiology, or some combination of two or more of these processes. Future empirical study of these processes in young CWS and CWNS may profit from longitudinal measurement of converging lines of evidence from behavioral, parent and psychophysiological indexes of emotional reactivity and regulation. Educational Objectives: After reading this article, the reader will be able to: (1) discuss salient findings in the literature regarding the association between emotional processes and childhood stuttering; (2) discuss sympathetic arousal, and how skin conductance is used to measure it; and (3) discuss the role of chronological age in the association between emotion and stuttering in young children.
Source: Journal of Fluency Disorders - Category: Speech Therapy Source Type: research