Fluency Predictor Variables in Early Stuttering Intervention for Children

Omid Early Intervention Programme for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Their Families in Iran

Child development research has established the importance of support and services for children with special needs and their families at very early stages after the diagnosis. These services offered in the form of the early intervention programmes. There is a dearth of early intervention programmes for children with autism spectrum disorders and their families in Iran. A parent based early inter...

Phonatory vocal tract stability in stuttering children before and after fluency--enhancing therapy.

BACKGROUND Stuttering is a complex disorder. Essentially, it is a neuromuscular disorder whose core consists of tiny lags and disruptions in the timing of the complicated movements required for speech. OBJECTIVE The purpose of the current study was to collec and comparg jitters and shimmer values in children who stutter before and after fluency--enhancing therapy. METHODS Subjects consisted...

Early Intervention for Children with Developmental Disabilities

German and English Comparison of Fluency Development and Stuttering

The thesis aimed explored disfluencies in stuttering through linguistic contrasts between English and German. Part one focused on the analysis o f speech samples of German speaking adults and children who stutter. Part two analysed bilingual German-English language development aiming to examine whether increased cognitive load o f two languages is related to language errors. Since people who st...

predictor variables for marathon race time in recreational female runners

purpose we intended to determine predictor variables of anthropometry and training for marathon race time in recreational female runners in order to predict marathon race time for future novice female runners. methods anthropometric characteristics such as body mass, body height, body mass index, circumferences of limbs, thicknesses of skin-folds and body fat as well as training variables such ...