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Area of Science:

Speech-Language Pathology
Developmental Psychology
Linguistics

Background:

Recasts are a type of child-directed language (CDL) hypothesized to enhance language development in young children.
Previous research has primarily focused on recasts in younger children and has not extensively studied their use in conversations with parents of school-age children, particularly those who stutter (CWS).

Purpose of the Study:

To analyze the quality and quantity of recast usage in the language of parents interacting with school-age children who stutter (CWS) compared to parents of normally fluent children (CWNS).
To investigate whether parents of CWS are more likely to base recasts on stuttered versus fluent utterances.

Main Methods:

Collected conversational language samples from 13 school-age children who stutter (CWS) and 13 normally fluent children (CWNS) interacting with their parents.
Analyzed the parents' use of imitations and different types of recasts (simple and complex) in their child-directed language (CDL).

Main Results:

Parents of both CWS and CWNS were frequent users of imitations and various types of recasts.
The rank order of recast types employed by parents was identical for both groups.
Parents did not preferentially base recasts on stuttered utterances compared to fluent utterances in their conversations with CWS.

Conclusions:

The findings indicate significant similarities in the child-directed language (CDL) patterns, specifically recast usage, between parents of children who stutter (CWS) and parents of normally fluent children (CWNS).
This suggests that conversational interaction parameters may be similar across these groups, offering valuable insights for clinical practice and future research in childhood stuttering.