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Young stutterers' nonspeech behaviors during stuttering.

E G Conture1, E M Kelly

  • 1Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Syracuse University, NY 13244-2280.

Journal of Speech and Hearing Research
|October 1, 1991
PubMed
Summary

Young children who stutter exhibit more nonspeech behaviors than fluent children. These specific movements, like head turns and blinks, can help identify childhood stuttering.

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Area of Science:

  • Speech-Language Pathology
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Behavioral Science

Background:

  • Childhood stuttering is a complex disorder affecting speech fluency.
  • Nonspeech behaviors accompanying stuttering are not fully understood in young children.
  • Differentiating stuttering from normal disfluency is crucial for early intervention.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To analyze and compare nonspeech behaviors in young children who stutter versus normally fluent children.
  • To determine if specific nonspeech behaviors can aid in classifying children as stutterers.
  • To explore the potential underlying factors reflected by these nonspeech behaviors.

Main Methods:

  • Audio-video recordings of 30 children (28 boys, 2 girls) who stutter and 30 controls (mean age 54 months) during conversation.
  • Frame-by-frame analysis of 10 stuttered utterances and 10 fluent utterances per child.
  • Assessment of 66 distinct nonspeech behaviors during speech events.

Main Results:

  • Young stutterers produced significantly more nonspeech behaviors during stuttered utterances compared to fluent children's utterances.
  • Specific behaviors like head turns (left), blinks, and upper lip raising were more frequent in stutterers.
  • Nonspeech behaviors allowed for significant classification of children into stutterer or normally fluent groups.

Conclusions:

  • Nonspeech behaviors in young children are reliable indicators that can aid in classifying stuttering.
  • These associated movements may signify underlying cognitive, emotional, linguistic, or physical processes in childhood stuttering.
  • Further research into these nonspeech behaviors can inform diagnostic and therapeutic approaches for early stuttering intervention.

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