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Horabail S Venkatagiri¹, Nuggehalli P Nataraja², M Deepthi²

¹Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA. giri@iastate.edu

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Repeated readings reduce stuttering, but this study found motor learning does not explain why. For persons who stutter (PWS), fluency gains during repeated readings were not linked to improved motor skills.

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Area of Science:

Speech-language pathology
Motor learning
Stuttering research

Background:

Persons who stutter (PWS) exhibit reduced stuttering frequency with repeated text readings.
This fluency improvement has been hypothesized to result from motor learning principles.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate whether motor learning underlies the fluency gains observed in persons who stutter (PWS) during repeated readings of a text.
To test the hypothesis that practice through repeated readings enhances motor skills, leading to reduced stuttering.

Main Methods:

23 persons who stutter (PWS) read prose passages five times consecutively.
Analysis focused on 'new' stutters (words stuttered now but fluent previously) and 'old' stutters (words stuttered previously).

Main Results:

Contrary to the motor learning hypothesis, there was no significant difference in the number of new words stuttered across the five readings.
This indicates that words initially stuttered were not consistently avoided in subsequent readings due to motor skill acquisition.

Conclusions:

The findings do not support motor learning as the primary explanation for fluency improvements in persons who stutter (PWS) during repeated readings.
An alternative explanation for the observed phenomenon requires further investigation and validation.