Cluttering: Should We Be Looking at Central Auditory Processing Abilities?

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DSTP with cluttering vs. stuttering in 6- to 9-yr-olds?

From: Lisa LaSalle
Date: 29 Apr 2010
Time: 20:20:46 -0500
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Hi Carla, Thanks for such an informative article and for underscoring the point that SLPs don't diagnose (C)APDs but we should refer to audiologists for further testing. A Master's thesis student, Rachel Duginske and I published a study in which we used the The Differential Screening Test for Processing (DSTP) by Richard and Ferre (2006) that you explain in this article. We used the first level of processing, central auditory processing, where as you say, "auditory signal travels from the ear to the brain and is differentiated according to its acoustic features." The five 6- to 9-year-old boys who stutter showed significantly poorer performance on the auditory discrimination subtest than their normally fluent peers. (LaSalle, L. & Duginske, R. [2008] Auditory discrimination deficits in boys who stutter: A preliminary investigation. Perspectives on Fluency and Fluency Disorders, pp. 69-77.) So, for my Q: What do you think about research school-age children who clutter using this DSTP? What would we hypothesize would be different about their results and which of the three levels of DSTP would be more important to investigate?


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