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

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

From: Carla Di Domenicantonio
Date: 04 May 2010
Time: 11:20:51 -0500
Remote Name: 65.92.55.87

Comments

Hi,Lisa - Good to hear from you, and thank you for sharing information about your study. I think it would be great to use the DSTP to conduct preliminary investigations of auditory-linguistic processing in children who clutter. Based on the research findings that I reported on, I would suspect that more of the children would show deficits on the dichotic digits task. (It would be interesting to see if boys who clutter obtain different or similar results to boys who stutter on the DSTP.) Because of a possible LD connection in cluttering, I think that deficits could potentially be found in all three levels of the DSTP. Screening all three areas would provide valuable information about cluttering and would guide future research. Considering that the DSTP is a screening tool and not a diagnostic test, emerging trends should be subjected to additional diagnostic testing. In the case of AP skills (as you state in your opening remark) an audiologist could administer a diagnostic battery of tests and provide an interpretation of results. The other two levels on the DSTP are well within the realm of speech-language pathologists. I hope you choose to pursue the study of AP skills in cluttering - I look forward to reading your results! Best wishes, Carla.


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