What Are Physiological Characteristics of Stuttering? Physiological Differences Between People Who Do and Do Not Stutter

A study of disfluencies in people who do not stutter estimated using the Assessment of Stuttering

ccurately evaluating stuttering symptoms in both children and adults who stutter is the first step in the treatment of stuttering. Around the time of "Diagnosogenic theory" researchers collected speech samples from a large number of children, and attempted the categorization and development of indicators for evaluating people who stutter (PWS). Two global disfluency measures were introduced: St...

Perception of disfluency in people who stutter and people who do not stutter: Results from magnitude estimation

Recent accounts of stuttering [7], [15] consider disfluencies the result of an interaction between speech planning and selfmonitoring, emphasizing the continuity between errors made in everyday speech and those made by people who stutter. On Vasic & Wijnen’s [14], [15] account, the monitor is hypervigilant for upcoming problems and interrupts and restarts the speech signal, resulting in disflue...

Judgment of disfluency in people who stutter and people who do not stutter: results from magnitude estimation.

Two experiments used a magnitude estimation paradigm to test whether perception of disfluency is a function of whether the speaker and the listener stutter or do not stutter. Utterances produced by people who stutter were judged as "less fluent," and, critically, this held for apparently fluent utterances as well as for utterances identified as containing disfluency. Additionally, people who st...

Exploring the relationships between perfectionism, speech-monitoring and disfluency in the speech of people who do and do not stutter

Oral electromyography activation patterns for speech are similar in preschoolers who do and do not stutter.

PURPOSE In this study, the authors determined whether basic patterns of muscle activation for speech were similar in preschool children who stutter and in their fluent peers. METHOD Right and left lower lip muscle activity were recorded during conversational speech and sentence repetition in 64 preschool children diagnosed as stuttering (CWS) and in 40 children who do not stutter (CWNS). Meas...