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Maintenance of Fluency in Extra-Clinical Settings: Lack of Empirical Data

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Maintenance of Fluency in Extra-Clinical Settings: Lack of Empirical Data

Glen Tellis¹, Michelle Henning¹, and Cari Tellis²
¹Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Special Education, 259 Davis Hall, Indiana, PA I 5 705
²University of Pittsburgh, Dept. of Communication Disorders

SUMMARY

The long-term maintenance of fluency is the goal of many stuttering therapy programs. Thirty-two years of articles were reviewed to determine how many maintenance studies were conducted. Studies were reviewed for: gender, age, therapy techniques, study duration, and design. Results indicate that there is an acute shortage of published maintenance studies. The review yielded only 25 treatment studies that mentioned maintenance procedures. In the studies that included the maintenance stage of therapy, however, the authors did not agree about the amount, type, and duration of the maintenance programs. More research is needed to address issues in maintenance and relapse.

Overall Assessment of The Speaker’s Experience of Stuttering (OASES)

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Overall Assessment of The Speaker’s Experience of Stuttering (OASES)

J. Scott Yaruss¹ and Robert W. QUESAL²
¹Deportment of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
²C0mmunication Sciences and Disorders, Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL 61455, USA

SUMMARY

Recent years have seen a renewed interest in measuring treatment outcomes, particularly for broad-based treatment approaches that attempt to achieve changes in a speal<er’s overall communication ability rather than focusing solely or primarily on gains in fluency. Unfortunately, prior attempts to document such treatment outcomes have been hindered by a relative lack of reliable instruments for assessing real-world outcomes. This paper describes the development of a new measurement instrument for assessing several aspects of the speaker’s experience of stuttering, including fluency, personal and environmental reactions, difficulties with functional communication, and the impact of stuttering on the speaker’s quality of life. Preliminary data demonstrating the value of the instrument are presented for 4 individuals who have recently completed a broad-based treatment program.

A Preliminary Analysis of Interaction Characteristics Between Chronic Stuttering Japanese Children and Their Mothers

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A Preliminary Analysis of Interaction Characteristics Between Chronic Stuttering Japanese Children and Their Mothers

Keiko Gongdo¹, Yoko Walaba², Sumiko Inoue^2,3 Megumi Iizawa³, and Hiroshi Fujino⁴
¹Department of Early Childhood Education, St. Margaret's Junior College, 4-29-23, Kugayama, Suginami-ku, Tokyo, 168-8626, Japan
²The Research Institute for the Education of Exceptional Children , Tokyo Gakugei University, 4-1-1 Nukuilfita-machi, Koganei-city, Tokyo, 184-8501, Japan
³R&D Center, PIGEON Corporation, 6-20-4, Kinunodai, Yawara-mura, Tsukuba-gun, Ibaraki-ken, 300-2495, Japan
⁴Department of Education for Children with Disabilities, F uculty of Education, Tokyo Gakugei University, 4-1-1 NukuiKita-machi, Koganei-city, Tokyo, 184-8501, Japan

SUMMARY

The purpose of this study was to compare interaction characteristics between a group of 9-year-old Japanese stuttering children (N :3) and their mothers during free play to those of a control group of nonstuttering children (N :3) and their mothers. A 10-minute play session for each pair was analyzed in terms of a number of utterances, number of topic initiations, MLU, a number of interruptions and conversational functions. Subjects in the stuttering group showed fewer interruptions during the conversation than the subjects in the non-stuttering group. Conversational functions varied among subjects; however, 2 mothers of the stuttering group showed a tendency to control their children’s behaviors.

Fluency Development and Temperament in Fluent Children and Children Who Stutter

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Fluency Development and Temperament in Fluent Children and Children Who Stutter

Peter Howell¹, Stephen Davis¹, Hina Patel¹, Paul Cuniffe¹, Deborah Downing-Wilson¹, James Au-Yeung¹ and Roberta Williams²
¹University College London, 26 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AP
²City University, Northampton Square, London EC1V OHB

SUMMARY

Some interim results of a longitudinal study into indicators of fluency development are reported. A variety of language tests were performed. OCDI (Oxford Communication Development Inventory) scores were obtained at about 18 months and errors in naming pictures were obtained on a group of the children around this age. MLU (mean length of utterance) and a receptive measure of syntax (ROST - Reception of Syntax Test) were obtained when the children were around three years. CD1 correlated negatively with picture naming errors and this might reflect lexical development. MLU correlated with ROST score and this might reflect syntactic development. Measures of temperament obtained at 3 years did not correlate markedly with any language measure. It is concluded that there are two language factors that affect fluency development (lexical and syntactic), neither of which is related to temperament. In older fluent children and children who stutter temperament was found to differentiate the groups (CD1, MLU and picture naming are not appropriate tests for these older children). It is concluded that temperament may differentiate children who stutter from fluent speakers independent of their language performance.

A Temporal Analysis of Disfluencies in Children Who Stutter Close to Onset and Controls

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A Temporal Analysis of Disfluencies in Children Who Stutter Close to Onset and Controls

Patricia Sandrieder, Ulrich Natke, Melanie van Ark, Reinhard Pietrowsky and Karl Theodor Kalveram
Heinrich-Heine-University Diisseldotf, Institute of Experimental Psychology, Universitiitsstrasse I, 40225 Diisseldorf, Germany

SUMMARY

The purpose of this study was to investigate the temporal proportion of normal disfluencies in children who stutter (CWS) and those who do not (CWNS). The participants of the study were 12 children who do stutter and were close to onset of stuttering, and a control group. The frequency and duration of stuttering-like disfluencies (SLD) and other disfluencies (OD), including pauses were analyzed from audio- and video-taped speech samples consisting of at least 1000 syllables. No significant differences in the proportion of OD were found for CWS and CWNS or for CWS with or without remission. OD are shown to be highly significant dependent on age.

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Maintenance of Fluency in Extra-Clinical Settings: Lack of Empirical Data

Overall Assessment of The Speaker’s Experience of Stuttering (OASES)

A Preliminary Analysis of Interaction Characteristics Between Chronic Stuttering Japanese Children and Their Mothers

Fluency Development and Temperament in Fluent Children and Children Who Stutter

A Temporal Analysis of Disfluencies in Children Who Stutter Close to Onset and Controls

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