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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"adults who stutter"”.
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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 …
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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
… 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 adults …
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Neuroanatomical differences in adults and children who stutter: a voxel-based morphometry study
… physiological 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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Examining fluency practices: an interactional study of stuttering
… disorders approaches to examine the impact of stuttering on the functional communication system managing stuttering. Adults who self-identified as persons who stutter and their familiar communication partners were recruited for this study. Following an ethnographic approach to data collection, …
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Auditory-motor integration influences on speech motor control and fluency: a comparison of normally fluent speakers and people who stutter
… stability and speech fluency in normally fluent adults (PWNS) and to compare them with effects on adults who exhibit persistent stuttering. If the auditory processing influences differently the two groups, it might shed light on the basic role of auditory-to-motor integration in speech …
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Outcomes for Adult Males Using the SpeechEasy Fluency Device for One Year
Outcomes for ten adult males who used the SpeechEasy fluency device for one year were investigated. Outcomes were determined from qualitative analysis of responses to open-end questions developed from a content analysis of the Perceptions of Stuttering Inventory (PSI) and the Locus of Control of …