DURATIONAL, PROPORTIONATE, AND ABSOLUTE FREQUENCY CHARACTERISTICS OF DISFLUENCIES: A LONGITUDINAL STUDY REGARDING PERSISTENCE AND RECOVERY

Rebecca Throneburg, Ehud Yairi

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Resumen

The main objective of this study was to investigate developmental aspects of disfluencies over time as stuttering persists or ameliorates for 2 groups of preschool age children who stutter. Results indicated that the frequency, type, and duration of disfluencies remained relatively constant instead of increasing as expected in the persistent group over a 3-year period. In contrast, the recovered group's initially higher frequency of disfluency decreased over time, as did their number of repetition units and proportion of disrhythmic phonations, while the duration of silent intervals between repetition units and proportion of monosyllabic word repetitions increased.
Idioma originalAmerican English
PublicaciónJournal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
Volumen44
EstadoPublished - 2001

Disciplines

  • Communication Sciences and Disorders

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