Senior Project Advisor

Mathers-Schmidt, Barbara A.

Document Type

Project

Publication Date

Spring 1999

Keywords

Language ability, Stuttering, Narrative production

Abstract

For the last two decades researchers (Colburn & Mysak, 1982; Gaines, Runyan, & Meyers, 1991; Gordon & Luper, 1989; Hill & Gordon, 1995; St. Louis, Murray, & Ashworth, 1991; Wall & Myers, 1982) have examined the link between the language ability of the speaker and stuttering. They found that stuttering occurred more often in novel syntactic structures (Colburn & Mysak, 1982), longer and more complex utterances (Gaines et al., 1991), and sentence generation (rather than imitated sentences) (Gordon & Luper, 1989). In evaluating the speech of children who stutter, most standard assessment protocols include picture description and conversational speech samples. Some of the more thorough ones suggest sampling a variety of speaking situations. However, most do not look at higher language skills and whether or not there is any interaction between language complexity and stuttering. These assessment protocols reflect the ambiguity of our current understanding of connections between fluency and language.

Department

Communication Sciences and Disorders

Subjects - Topical (LCSH)

Stuttering in children; Children--Language; Communicative competence in children

Genre/Form

student projects; term papers

Type

Text

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Language

English

Format

application/pdf

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