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S C Meyers, F J Freeman

    Journal of Speech and Hearing Research
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    Mothers interrupt children more when they are disfluent, not when they are fluent. Children tend to be disfluent when they interrupt their mothers, impacting stuttering development.

    Area of Science:

    • Speech-Language Pathology
    • Developmental Psychology
    • Childhood Communication Disorders

    Background:

    • Parental verbal behavior is a key factor in stuttering development.
    • Current advice often suggests parents avoid interrupting children who stutter.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To investigate if mothers of preschool stutterers interrupt more than mothers of nonstutterers.
    • To examine if stuttering children interrupt mothers more than nonstuttering children.
    • To determine the relationship between interruptive behavior and children's disfluencies.

    Main Methods:

    • Analysis of 10-minute conversational speech samples.
    • Participants included 24 preschool boys (12 stutterers, 12 nonstutterers) and their mothers.
    • Speech samples involved interactions with own children and unfamiliar children.

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    Main Results:

    • Mothers interrupted disfluent speech of stutterers more than mothers of nonstutterers.
    • All mothers interrupted children's disfluent speech significantly more than fluent speech.
    • Children tended to be disfluent when interrupting a mother.

    Conclusions:

    • Mothers' interruptions are more frequent during children's disfluent speech.
    • Children's disfluencies may be influenced by their own interruptive behavior towards mothers.
    • Findings suggest a complex interplay between parental and child verbal behaviors in stuttering.