By the Numbers: Disfluency Analysis for Preschool Children who Stutter

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Re: Rate of disfluencies

From: Jean Sawyer
Date: 20 Oct 2010
Time: 10:02:45 -0500
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Thank you for your question, Yiannis. You are right that children who stutter tend to repeat syllables faster than normally fluent children, and it is the intervals between the repetitions that are shorter (this study is from Throneburg & Yairi, 1994 and Yairi & Hall, 1993. It is very difficult clinically, however, to measure these, as acoustic measures are needed. But you can note the "tempo" of the disfluencies informally. In the studies I mentioned, the intervals were statistically different. But hard to measure clinically. Jean


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