CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE Stuttering is a complex disease that influences occupational, social, academic and emotional achievements. The aim of this study was to correlate the stuttering severity index with speaking rates of mothers and children. DESIGN AND SETTING Cross-sectional study, at the child rehabilitation clinics of Tehran city. METHODS 35 pairs of mothers and their children who stutt...

This paper explains the complexity of personal experience of stuttering using self-identity as a lens. It draws on a narrative life history study of five male and two female adults with developmental stuttering. Their experiences of stuttering were subjected to a narrative, interpretive analysis. Two primary self-identity trajectories viz. DisOther and Able were identified in relation to their ...

Stuttering means that children have difficulties in rhythm, sound, syllable, word and phrase repetitions, or flow of speech cut in the form of extension or block form. In the International Classification of Diseases (1992) ) (International Classification of Diseases10 “ICD-10”), Stuttering was defined as speech disturbances emerging as a result of repetitions or cut of one sound involuntarily a...

UNLABELLED The relationship between anxiety and stuttering is equivocal from both clinical and empirical perspectives. This study examined the relationship within the framework of the multidimensional interaction model of anxiety that includes an approach to general anxiety in specific situations [J. Pers. Soc. Psychol. 60 (1991) 919]. Ninety-four males aged 18-43, half disfluent speakers and h...

UNLABELLED This study compared the disfluencies of German-speaking preschool children who stutter (CWS, N = 24) with those produced by age- and sex-matched comparison children who do not stutter (CWNS, N = 24). In accordance with Yairi and Ambrose's [Yairi, E., & Ambrose, N. (1992). A longitudinal study of stuttering in children: A preliminary report. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 35,...

Objective: The Lidcombe program is one of the treatments for stuttering in preschool children, who is effectiveness on improvement in stuttering has been confirmed. Some families have no access to care centers due to different reasons and as such they are deprived of treatment. Considering the fact that some research has been conducted on telepractice of speech and language disorders through di...

stuttering as a disorder from which many people suffer has drawn the attention of many psychologists and theorists. however, very few studies have investigated the incidence of this phenomenon in second language learning. this study deals with the problem from only one perspective: how does stuttering in second language of a stammerer come to exist? the answer to this question seems to be vague...

This is the second in a series of reports concerning stuttering pre-school children enrolled in a longitudinal study; the first was Ryan (1992). Conversational samples of 20 stuttering and 20 non-stuttering pre-school children and their mothers were analysed for speaking rate, conversational speech acts, interruption, and linguistic complexity. Between-group analyses revealed few differences be...

Although twin, adoption, and family studies demonstrate that genetic factors are involved in the origins of stuttering, the mode of transmission of the disorder in families is not well defined and stuttering is considered a genetically complex trait. We performed a genome-wide linkage scan in a group of 43 Brazilian families, each containing multiple cases of persistent developmental stuttering...

Stuttering is an uncommon presentation of acute stroke. Reported cases have often been associated with left sided cortical lesions, aphasia, and diYculties with other non-linguistic tests of rhythmic motor control. Three patients with subcortical lesions resulting in stuttering are discussed. In one patient the ability to perform time estimations with a computerised repetitive time estimation t...