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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Children who stutter"”.
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Addressing bullying of children who stutter
Research indicates that individuals who stutter are at higher risk of being targets of bullying which is associated with a variety of poor mental health and social outcomes. This report serves as a guide to assist SLPs in understanding and addressing this issue in a clinical setting. Specifically, …
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A large-scale analysis of lexical diversity in children who stutter
… study compared lexical abilities in 99 pairs of children who stutter (CWS), ages 25 – 100 months and age-, gender-, and SES-matched children who do not stutter (CWNS) in spontaneous conversation and on standardized vocabulary tests. Correlations among lexical diversity measures and dissociations …
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Neuroanatomical differences in adults and children who stutter: a voxel-based morphometry study
… and structural differences in adults who stutter and children who stutter compared to fluent controls. However, a comparison of neuroanatomical differences between adult group and children group has not been reported in the literature. The current study examined neuroanatomical …
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Facilitating transfer and maintenance in school-aged children who stutter : a guidebook for clinicians
… of transfer and maintenance as it relates to stuttering, b) explore the unique challenges that face the school-aged population, c) examine research outside of the field that may be of benefit for school-aged stuttering clients, and d) provide the clinician with examples and activities that …
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Characteristics of Disfluencies of Preschool Children Who Stutter: A Longitudinal Study Regarding Persistence and Recovery
This study was supported by grant #R01-DC00459 from the National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health, Principal Investigator: Ehud Yairi.
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Classroom intervention to change peers' attitudes towards children who stutter: a pilot study six months post-intervention
… was developed to improve peer attitudes towards children who stutter (CWS). This pilot study will inform the feasibility of a Randomised Control Trial (RCT) through the following aims: 1. To analyse selected procedural aspects including recruitment, participation and re tention rates and …
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Effectiveness of the classroom communication resource in changing primary school learners' attitudes towards children who stutter after one month: A feasibility study
Children who stutter are bullied and teased by their peers, especially in the primary schooling years. The Classroom Communication resource (CCR) was developed as a teacher-administered classroom-based education programme aiming to improve peers' attitudes towards CWS. The focus of this feasibility …
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The Classroom Communication Resource (CCR) intervention to change grade 7 peers' attitudes towards children who stutter (CWS) in the Western Cape: a randomised controlled trial
… need to manage teasing and bullying of children who stutter (CWS) through changing the attitudes of their peers. The intervention, the Classroom Communication Resource (CCR), was implemented by teachers in classrooms. The primary objective of the main study was to determine the …
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The effect of phonological, semantic, and hybrid associates on accurate recall and false memories of adults who stutter : a preliminary study
… that the phonological representations of young children who stutter are less specified than their typically fluent peers. The purpose of the present study is to determine if this apparent difference in phonological encoding persists in adults who stutter. Utilizing a false memory paradigm, nine …
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The Speech Situation Checklist: A Normative And Comparative Investigat
… disruption in particular speech situations among children who stutter, compared to those who do not (Brutten & Vanryckeghem, 2003b; Knudson, 1939; Meyers, 1986; Trotter, 1983). Laboratory investigations have been utilized to describe the particular situations that elicit the greatest or least …
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Primary school teachers' opinions and attitudes towards stuttering in two socio-economic quintiles within the Western Cape
… of main communication intervention partners for children who stutter (CWS). Teachers' attitudes towards stuttering are therefore important as attitudes are likely to influence behaviour. Through determining their attitudes as well as examining the factors influencing their attitudes, speech - …
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Lexical and Sublexical Characteristics of Words Produced Disfluently by Adults Who Stutter
<p>The examination of stuttered words dates back over 70 years. While recent studies have examined the speech of children who stutter (CWS) (Anderson & Byrd, 2008) or small parts of speech of adults who stutter (AWS) (Au-Yeung, Howell, & Pilgrim, 1998, little is known about the words produced …