By the Numbers: Disfluency Analysis for Preschool Children who Stutter

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Re: Disadvantages of disfulency analysis?

From: Jean Sawyer
Date: 13 Oct 2010
Time: 19:48:34 -0500
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Hi Katie, Thank you for your question. There have been some recent articles by Bothe (2008) and Einarsdóttir and Ingham (2005) which found that the reliability for this method is not high. I have found that reliability has been high within my own lab, and there is evidence that within groups who work together, reliability is high. So reliability is a concern. I do personally use disfluency analysis for school age children and adults, as it gives a more detailed picture of disfluency. Jean


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