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Area of Science:

  • Physiology
  • Psychology
  • Biochemistry

Background:

  • Children who stutter are often excluded from physiological stress studies.
  • Understanding stress responses in children who stutter is crucial for comprehensive care.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To generate physiologic reactivity profiles for school-age children with a history of stuttering.
  • To measure stress biomarkers cortisol and alpha-amylase in response to daily stressors.
  • To characterize autonomic reactivity in children who stutter.

Main Methods:

  • Salivary samples collected four times daily over three days from 9 children (aged 6-11 years).
  • Measured stress biomarkers cortisol and alpha-amylase.
  • Utilized home-based salivary sampling with family collection.

Main Results:

  • Children with a history of stuttering exhibited significantly lower mean cortisol and alpha-amylase levels compared to published norms.
  • These lower levels were still within normal physiological limits.
  • No significantly elevated stress biomarkers were observed in response to daily stressors.

Conclusions:

  • Salivary sampling offers an innovative, minimally invasive method for studying physiological stress in children who stutter.
  • Initial findings suggest children who stutter do not show elevated stress biomarkers under normal daily conditions.
  • Further research is needed, especially considering the small sample size, to validate these findings and explore treatment implications.