UNLABELLED An fMRI study examining lexical access and lexical generation in nine non-stuttering and seven stuttering speakers is presented. Lexical access was examined during a word description task that was presented auditorily while subjects "silently" thought of the target words. Participants alternated between four 30-s rest blocks and four 30-s "active" blocks. Activation patterns were ass...

Background and purpose: The acute onset of stuttering in an adult is not uncommon and rarely is caused by ischemic stroke. A neurologist is likely to encounter this presentation and it is important to identify distinguishing features between ischemic stroke and other causes. Adult-onset acquired stuttering is classified as either neurogenic if secondary to brain injury or psychogenic in the abs...

PURPOSE The experiential claims of nine people who stuttered were examined with the purpose of determining the impact of stuttering on their work lives and to further examine what meaning they derive from these experiences. METHOD Six male and three female participants aged 29-61 years (mean age, 41.4) who stuttered were interviewed and verbatim interview transcripts were analyzed using inter...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the efficacy of the Lidcombe programme of early stuttering intervention by comparison to a control group. DESIGN A pragmatic, open plan, parallel group, randomised controlled trial with blinded outcome assessment. SETTING Two public speech clinics in New Zealand. PARTICIPANTS Stuttering preschool children who presented to the speech clinics for treatment. Inclusion ...

This case study describes a 16-year-old boy who started to stutter after a rotavirus infection followed by signs suggestive of a cerebellar encephalitis. It illustrates the fact that acquired stuttering can be observed in younger children and that it may be difficult to distinguish neurogenic from psychogenic forms of acquired stuttering in some cases. This is especially true following a diseas...

The symptomatology, reading ability, anxiety levels, responsiveness to therapy, and speechmotor behavior of elementaryand high-school children who stutter and had a positive family history of stuttering were compared with those of stutterers with a negative kinship history of stuttering. The stutterers with a positive family history of stuttering differed significantly from those whose family h...

PURPOSE To determine whether young children who stutter have a basic motor timing and/or a coordination deficit. METHOD Between-hands coordination and variability of rhythmic motor timing were assessed in 17 children who stutter (4-6 years of age) and 13 age-matched controls. Children clapped in rhythm with a metronome with a 600-ms interbeat interval and then attempted to continue to match t...

Stuttering patterns may differ when comparing two languages. In bilinguals, specific patterns of stuttering in each one of the languages may potentially be found. This study reports on the case of a 27-year-old Spanish/English simultaneous bilingual whose dominant language is English. Speech and language testing was performed in both languages (language repetition, language understanding, vocab...

The effect of speech rate on stuttering frequency was investigated with 20 stutterers. Subjects read two different 300 syllable passages at a normal and fast speech rate. Stuttering counts and articulatory rate was determined for each speech sample. Articulatory rates were derived from portions of the passages which were perceptually fluent. No statistically significant difference in stuttering...