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Publication date: September 2015 Source:Journal of Fluency Disorders, Volume 45 (Source: Journal of Fluency Disorders)
Source: Journal of Fluency Disorders - August 18, 2015 Category: Speech Therapy Source Type: research
Stuttering: Foundations and Clinical Applications, second ed., E. Yairi, C. Seery (Eds.). Pearson, Boston, MA (2014)
Publication date: Available online 11 August 2015 Source:Journal of Fluency Disorders Author(s): Craig Coleman (Source: Journal of Fluency Disorders)
Source: Journal of Fluency Disorders - August 13, 2015 Category: Speech Therapy Source Type: research
A Reply to Coleman and Tsai
Publication date: Available online 12 August 2015 Source:Journal of Fluency Disorders Author(s): Ehud Yairi, Carol Seery (Source: Journal of Fluency Disorders)
Source: Journal of Fluency Disorders - August 13, 2015 Category: Speech Therapy Source Type: research
Stuttering: Foundations and Clinical Applications, 2nd ed., E. Yairi, C. Seery (Eds.). Pearson, Boston, MA (2014)
Publication date: Available online 12 August 2015 Source:Journal of Fluency Disorders Author(s): Pei-Tzu Tsai (Source: Journal of Fluency Disorders)
Source: Journal of Fluency Disorders - August 13, 2015 Category: Speech Therapy Source Type: research
Further Investigation of Anxiety in Children and Adolescents who Stutter
Conclusions Experts suggest high scores on the RCMAS Lie Scale are indicative of participants attempting to present themselves in a positive light and so cast doubt on the veracity of their other responses on the test. One interpretation, then, is that the boys were concealing true levels of anxiety about their stuttering. The findings suggest why findings of anxiety studies in children and adolescents to date are equivocal. Clinical implications are discussed. (Source: Journal of Fluency Disorders)
Source: Journal of Fluency Disorders - August 9, 2015 Category: Speech Therapy Source Type: research
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 ...
Source: Journal of Fluency Disorders - August 7, 2015 Category: Speech Therapy Source Type: research
The role of temporal speech cues in facilitating the fluency of adults who stutter
Conclusions Findings suggest that adults who stutter make greater use of speech-related information in choral signals when talking than adults with typical fluency do. The presence of fluency facilitation during temporally altered choral speech and conversation babble suggests that temporal/gestural cueing alone cannot account for fluency facilitation in speakers who stutter. Other potential fluency enhancing mechanisms are discussed. (Source: Journal of Fluency Disorders)
Source: Journal of Fluency Disorders - August 2, 2015 Category: Speech Therapy Source Type: research
Elementary school students’ perceptions of stuttering: A mixed model approach
Conclusion The findings of this study together with past research in this area should help clinicians and their clients appreciate the range of social and emotional reactions peers have of a child who stutters. Educational objectives : After reading this article, the reader will be able to: (a) discuss past research regarding children's perceptions of stuttering; (b) summarize the need to explore the perceptions of elementary-aged children toward a peer who stutters; (c) describe the major quantitative and qualitative findings of children's perceptions of stuttering; and (d) discuss the need for disseminating more infor...
Source: Journal of Fluency Disorders - July 9, 2015 Category: Speech Therapy Source Type: research
Origin and Pawn scaling for adults who do and do not stutter: A preliminary comparison
Conclusion A pattern of increasing Origin and decreasing Pawn scores may indicate a pattern of increasing agency during successful stuttering treatment. Moreover the post-treatment Origin and Pawn score ratios of AWS, which were not significantly different from those of AWNS, may indicate a change trend toward normalization. Further research will determine whether such change patterns are predictive of long-term maintenance. Educational Objectives: By reading this article the reader will be able to: (a) describe advantages of content analysis measure such as the Origin and Pawn Scales; (b) discuss the purposes and proc...
Source: Journal of Fluency Disorders - June 22, 2015 Category: Speech Therapy Source Type: research
Responses of adults who stutter to the anticipation of stuttering
Conclusion Findings demonstrate that most, if not all, adults who stutter experience anticipation, and the majority of adults who stutter report doing so at least often. Adults who stutter respond to this anticipation by altering the speech production process in various ways. Results highlight the importance of the role that anticipation plays in how stuttering behaviors manifest themselves. Educational Objectives: The reader will be able to: (a) summarize existing literature on the anticipation of stuttering; (b) describe the role and extent of anticipation of stuttering in adults; (c) describe the various ways that adu...
Source: Journal of Fluency Disorders - June 22, 2015 Category: Speech Therapy Source Type: research
Validation and evaluation of the Dutch translation of the Overall Assessment of the Speaker's Experience of Stuttering for School-age children (OASES-S-D)
This study evaluated the Dutch translation of the Overall Assessment of the Speaker's Experience of Stuttering – School-age (OASES-S; Yaruss & Quesal, 2010), which examines the impact of stuttering on the lives of children ages 7–12. Method The OASES-S was translated to Dutch (OASES-S-D) using a forward/backward translation process. Participants were 101 Dutch-speaking children who stutter (ages 7–12) who were recruited by speech-language therapists throughout the Netherlands. All participants completed the OASES-S-D, the Children's Attitudes about Talking-Dutch, a self-assessment of severity, a clinical as...
Source: Journal of Fluency Disorders - June 22, 2015 Category: Speech Therapy Source Type: research
Relation of Motor, Linguistic and Temperament Factors in Epidemiologic Subtypes of Persistent and Recovered Stuttering: Initial Findings
Conclusions The present study provides data supporting the hypothesis that subtypes of stuttering can be identified along persistency/recovery lines, but results were not definitive. (Source: Journal of Fluency Disorders)
Source: Journal of Fluency Disorders - June 22, 2015 Category: Speech Therapy Source Type: research
Motor Practice Effects and Sensorimotor Integration in Adults who Stutter: Evidence from Visuomotor Tracking Performance
Conclusion Our findings revealed no statistically significant differences in non-speech motor practice effects and integration of sensorimotor feedback between PWS and PWNS, at least in the context of the visuomotor tracking tasks employed in the study. In general, both talker groups exhibited practice effects (i.e., increased accuracy over time) within and between tracking trials during both jaw and hand tracking. Implications for these results are discussed. (Source: Journal of Fluency Disorders)
Source: Journal of Fluency Disorders - April 28, 2015 Category: Speech Therapy Source Type: research
A model clarifying the role of mediators in the variability of mood states over time in people who stutter
Conclusions Mood was found to be influenced by factors that are arguably important for a person to cope and adjust adaptively to the adversity associated with fluency disorder. A model that explains how mood states are influenced over time is described. Implications of these results for managing adults who stutter with elevated negative mood states like social anxiety are discussed. Educational Objectives: The reader will be able to describe: (a) the method involved in hierarchical (directed) regression used in path analysis; (b) the variability of mood states over a period of five months; (c) the nature of the mediato...
Source: Journal of Fluency Disorders - April 15, 2015 Category: Speech Therapy Source Type: research
Anticipation in stuttering: A theoretical model of the nature of stutter prediction
Publication date: Available online 26 March 2015 Source:Journal of Fluency Disorders Author(s): Mauricio A. Garcia-Barrera , Jason H. Davidow The fact that some people who stutter have the ability to anticipate a stuttering moment is essential for several theories of stuttering and important for maximum effectiveness of many currently used treatment techniques. The “anticipation effect,” however, is poorly understood despite much investigation into this phenomenon. In the present paper, we combine (1) behavioral evidence from the stuttering-anticipation literature, (2) speech production models, and (3) models of ...
Source: Journal of Fluency Disorders - April 15, 2015 Category: Speech Therapy Source Type: research
