UNLABELLED Stuttering has been found to deteriorate quality of life in psychological, emotional and social functioning domains. It is reasonable to assume then that stuttering would also be associated with economic consequences that may also challenge quality of life. Remarkably, the personal financial costs associated with stuttering in adults has rarely if ever been explored or investigated i...

UNLABELLED The aim of this study was to examine listener perceptions of an adult male person who stutters (PWS) who did or did not disclose his stuttering. Ninety adults who do not stutter individually viewed one of three videotaped monologues produced by a male speaker with severe stuttering. In one monologue, 30 listeners heard the speaker disclose stuttering at the beginning and in another m...

Normal fluency errors usually appear during language development, especially during the transition between the stages of one-word and simple phrases. In cases of stuttering the speaker produces several involuntary repetitions of phonemes, syllables, or words. The speaker can also show phoneme prolongation or a complete interruption of speech production. Other abnormal fluency failures in stutte...

PURPOSE To examine the associations of trait anxiety (STAI), social anxiety (SIAS), depression (BDI-II), and personality features (ADP-IV) with three measures of stuttering severity: %SS, Stuttering Severity, Instrument, and the Overall Assessment of the Speaker's Experience of Stuttering. METHOD Fifty adults with a history of stuttering served as participants. Participant scores on trait, an...

objectives: the gradual increase length and complexity of utterance (gilcu) therapy method is a form of operant conditioning. this is a precise and controlled treatment that is done in 54 steps in 3 speech situations consisting of monologue, reading, and conversation. this study aimed at examining the effects of gilcu treatment method on the reduction of speech dysfluency of school-aged childre...

UNLABELLED Stuttering can affect many aspects of a person's life. People who stutter report that they experience negative reactions to stuttering, difficulty communicating in key situations, diminished satisfaction with life, and a reduced ability to achieve their goals in life. Unfortunately, most treatment outcomes studies have focused on changes in the observable characteristics of stutterin...

Recent brain imaging investigations of developmental stuttering show considerable disagreement regarding which regions are related to stuttering. These divergent findings have been mainly derived from group studies. To investigate functional neurophysiology with improved precision, an individual-participant approach (N=4) using event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging and test-retest...

Drug-induced stuttering has been described in association with several drugs, in particular antipsychotics, antidepressants and mood stabilizers. Stuttering, also called spasmophemia or stammering, is a speech disorder characterized by disruptions in speech motor behaviour (repeated or prolonged articulatory and phonatory actions) that result in sound and syllable repetitions, audible and inaud...

Stuttering is a developmental speech disorder that occurs in 5% of children with spontaneous remission in approximately 70% of cases. Previous imaging studies in adults with persistent stuttering found left white matter deficiencies and reversed right-left asymmetries compared to fluent controls. We hypothesized that similar differences might be present indicating brain development differences ...

The main feature of stuttering is the disturbance in terms of both timing and fluency of speech inappropriate with the age. This disturbance is characterized with the repetition and prolongation of sounds and syllables. There are two types of stuttering as acquired and developmental. Acquired stuttering may begin suddenly at any age and may be seen rarely due to the adverse effects of drugs. St...