Preschool Language and Phonological Proficiencies in Predicting Stuttering Recovery or Persistence
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Spencer, Caroline E. M.S., Purdue University, August 2013. Preschool Language and Phonological Proficiencies in Predicting Stuttering Recovery or Persistence. Major Professor: Christine Weber-Fox The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between expressive and receptive language, phonological, and verbal working memory proficiencies in the preschool years and eventual recovery from or persistence in stuttering. Participants included 40 children who stutter (CWS). At ages 3-5 years, participants were administered the Test of Auditory Comprehension of Language, 3 edition (TACL-3), the Structured Photographic Expressive Language Test, 3 edition (SPELT-3), BanksonBernthal Test of Phonology—Consonant Inventory subtest (BBTOP—CI), Test of Auditory Perceptual Skills—Revised (TAPS—R) auditory number memory and auditory word memory subtests, and the Dollaghan & Campbell Nonword Repetition Test (NRT). Stuttering behaviors were tracked in subsequent years, forming groups of children whose stuttering eventually persisted (CWS-Per; n=18) or recovered (CWS-Rec; n=22). Proficiency scores in morphosyntactic skills, consonant production, verbal working memory for known words, and phonological working memory for novel sequences obtained at 3-5 years of age were analyzed according to these groups. Results indicated that the major linguistic proficiency indices of eventual recovery or persistence of stuttering were related to phonological processing. Specifically, compared to CWS-Rec, CWS-Per were less proficient in measures of consonant production and repetition of novel phonological sequences. In contrast, receptive and expressive language proficiencies, as well as verbal working memory abilities, were quite similar for the two groups, though lower scores in expressive language abilities for CWS-Per neared
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