Other related fluency disorders

Cluttering

An extensive web page about cluttering and cluttering resources was added to the Stuttering Home Page on January 5, 2011 at http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster/cluttering.html

Neurogenic Stuttering and Associated with Neurogenic Disorders, including Late and Adult Onset Stuttering

• General resources related to Neurogenic Stuttering Disorders
  • From the Brain to the Mouth in Adult-Onset Stuttering by Y. Lebrun is chapter 10, pp 105-138 provides an abstract, first page, and a VERY extensive bibliography
  • Bibliography related to Neurogenic Stuttering sent by Patrick Coppens
  • Neurogenic Stuttering: Some Guidelines - from the Stuttering Foundation.
  • What is Neurogenic Stuttering
  • Neurogenic stuttering - so much we know, so much we still need to discover! by Luc Du Nil
  • Possibilities in Neurogenic Stuttering Treatment: An empirical study on therapists' experiences by Kathrin Koenig
  • An Overview of Neurological Stuttering by Molly Francis and Elizabeth Seaberg
  • Enter the following URL to find and download Acquired stuttering: differential diagnosis 106 page PDF of an ASHA 2011 presentation by John Van Borsel Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium and Veiga de Almeida University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (May also be downloaded from www.asha.org/events/convention/handouts/2011/borsel) Stammering which starts in adulthood - a British Stammering Association Leaflet for Adults.
• Stuttering and Apraxia
  • Children with Apraxia and Periods of Disfluency by David Hammer, CCC-SLP
  • Verbal Dyspraxia and Stuttering by Dr. Harmon, an Associate Professor on the graduate faculty at Mississippi University for Women
• Stuttering and CNS damage
  • Dysfluency secondary to CNS damage (ppt)
  • P.A.N.D.A.S. - a Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorder Associated with Streptococcal infections which at time occurs following a Streptococcal infection.
• Stuttering and Migraine
  • Michele Perino MD, Giuseppe Famularo MD, PhD and Paolo Tarroni MD (2001) Acquired Transient Stuttering During a Migraine Attack, Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain Article online at concludes: "We suggest that acquired transient stuttering should be included in the list of neurological symptoms that can accompany a migraine attack."
• Stuttering and Parkinson's Disease
  • Stuttering and Parkinson's Disease
  • Anderson, et al., Developmental stuttering and Parkinson's Disease: the effects of levodopa treatment. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry, 1999, 66, 776-778. (full article)
  • Shahed J, Jankovic Re-emergence of childhood stuttering in Parkinson's disease: a hypothesis. J.Mov Disord. 2001 Jan;16(1):114-8. Re-emergence of childhood stuttering in Parkinson's disease: a hypothesis. (abstract)
  • ECH Lim, E Wilder-Smith, BKC Ong, Adult-onset Re-emergent Stuttering as a Presentation of Parkinson's Disease Ann Acad Med Singapore 2005;34:579-81 (full article)
  • Mathias Toft and Espen Dietrichs Aggravated stuttering following subthalamic deep brain stimulation in Parkinson's disease - two casesBMC Neurology 2011, 11:44 doi:10.1186/1471-2377-11-44 (full article)
  • Olivia Tontini Critical review: What is the evidence for a relationship between Parkinson's disease and dysfluency (full article)
  • ASHA 2013 poster session - Two Cases of Reemergent Stuttering in Parkinson's Disease Presenter(s): Ryan Millager; Laura Ferriero; Alina Carter; Ellen Kelly
  • How Are Speech Problems Treated? from National Parkinson Foundation
• Stuttering and Stroke
  • Stroke-Associated Stuttering by Arthur C. Grant, MD, PhD; Valerie Biousse, MD; Albert A. Cook, MD; Nancy J. Newman, MD
• Stuttering and Tourette Syndrome
  • Stuttering and Tourette's Syndrome SFA brochure by Luc De Nil, Ph.D., Chair of the Graduate Department of Speech-Language Pathology, University of Toronto, and Paul Sandor, M.D., Director of the Tourette's Syndrome Clinic, University Health Network.
  • The National Tourette Syndrome Association
  • Gilles De La Tourette Syndrome from OMIM
  • ATourette Syndrome primer of material by collected by Dale E. Hammerschmidt, M.D., University of Minnesota
  • The Basal Ganglia's Possible Role in Stuttering: An Examination of Similarities between Stuttering, Tourette Syndrome, Dystonia, and other Neurological-Based Disorders of Movement by Larry Molt
  • John A. Tetnowski and Joseph Donaher, Disfluency Associated with Tourette's Syndrome: Two Case Studies ISAD Online Conference 2003
  • L. F. De Nil, I. D. Roth, J. Saltzman-Benaiah and P. Sandor, Speech, Language, and Learning Deficiencies Associated With Tourette's Syndrome, Perspectives on Neurophysiology and Neurogenic Speech and Language Disorders (Volume 16, Issue 2, June 1, 2006, pages 12-16) - https://doi.org/10.1044/nnsld16.2.12

Psychogenic Stuttering

• Acquired Stuttering in Post-Deployed Service Members: Neurogenic or Psychogenic? Population-Independent Overview of Acquired Stuttering - a PPT by Joe Duffy, Kevin Manning and Carole Roth that was presented at the 2012 ASHA convention
• Psychogenic Speech Disorders in People with Suspected Neurologic Disease: Diagnosis & Management by Joe Duffy, presented at the 2008 ASHA convention contains information about psychogenic stuttering.

Stuttering and Co-Existing Learning, Behavioral or Cognitive Challenges

• General resources
  • St. Louis , Ken (1986) The Atypical Stutterer, Academic Press, has a chapter by Eugene Cooper, "The Mentally Retarded Stutterer" which covers some basics of assessment with that population and gives an adaptation of his Personalized Fluency Control Therapy for this population.
  • Treating Children Who Stutter With Co-Existing Learning, Behavioral, or Cognitive Challenges by E. Charles Healey, Robert Reid, and Joseph Donaher
• Stuttering and Autism (and word-final disfluencies)
  • Scaler Scott, K., Tetnowski, J. A., Flaitz, J. R. and Yaruss, J. S. (2014), Preliminary study of disfluency in school-aged children with autism. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 49: 75-89. doi: 10.1111/1460-6984.12048 (Abstract. The full article is also online on through the link on the abstract page under "article")
  • Part I: Speech Disfluency in Autism Spectrum Disorders: Clinical Problem Solving for Autistic Disorders by Vivian Sisskin and Kathleen Scaler Scott
  • Part II: Speech Disfluency in Autism Spectrum Disorders: Clinical Problem Solving for Pervasive Developmental Disorder, Not Otherwise Specified and Asperger Syndrome by Kathleen Scaler Scott and Vivian Siskin
  • Autism Spectrum Disorders and Stuttering - brochure from the Stuttering Foundation
  • Autism Spectrum Disorders by Kathleen Scaler Scott
  • Autism Spectrum Disorders and Stuttering - a 2.5 hour DVD featuring Vivian Sisskin from the Stuttering Foundation - $10
  • Kathleen Scaler Scott article Dysfluency in Autism Spectrum Disorders in Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences Volume 193, 30 June 2015, Pages 239-245 10th Oxford Dysfluency Conference, ODC 2014, 17 - 20 July, 2014, Oxford, United kingdom (Conference Proceedings)
  • Kathleen Scaler Scott, Sheri Block, Nina Reeves, Sarah Nelson Speech Disfluency and Autism in Schools: Identifying Needs and Providing Support to SLPsProcedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences Volume 193, 30 June 2015, Pages 223-227 10th Oxford Dysfluency Conference, ODC 2014, 17 - 20 July, 2014, Oxford, United kingdom (Conference Proceedings)
  • Kearston T. Healey, Sarah Nelson, Kathleen Scaler Scott's article Word-final Dysfluencies in Conversation of a Child with Autism: A Treatment Case Study in Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences Volume 193, 30 June 2015, Pages 147-152, 10th Oxford Dysfluency Conference, ODC 2014, 17 - 20 July, 2014, Oxford, United kingdom (Conference Proceedings)
  • Word-Final Disfluencies - Bibliography
• Stuttering and Down Syndrome
  • Dysfluency, Stuttering and Down Syndrome
  • Stuttering and Down Syndrome Abstracts
  • The Nature of Dysfluency in Down's Syndrome
  • What Can We Do about Dysfluency, Stammering, Getting Stuck? from the Down's Syndrome Association Newsletter, Spring 2005
  • Treating Down's Children Who Stutter by Judith Eckardt, paper written for ISAD online conference, 2008.
  • Brochure: Down's Syndrome and Stuttering in html or PDF from The Stuttering Foundation.
  • Speech Dysfluencies in People with Down Syndrome - Kurt Eggers, Chris De Bal, ASHA Convention PPT - 2006
  • Example of mild stuttering in Down Syndrome - YouTube video of Tim who owns and operates his own restaurant in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
  • Stuttering Treatment Can Improve Speech for Children with Down Syndrome from Speech Buddies
  • Speech control in children with Down Syndrome by Howell, P. (2010) Speech control in children with Down syndrome. Down Syndrome Research and Practice, 12(2), 98-102. doi:10.3104/reviews.2095
  • Stuttering treatment for a school-age child with Down syndrome: A descriptive case report Jessica Harasym and Marilyn Langevin, Journal of Fluency Disorders, Volume 37, Issue 4, December 2012, Pages 253-262 (article available on Science Direct)
  • Is Stuttering Therapy Useful for Adolescents and Adults with Down Syndrome who are Dysfluent Monica Bray, Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 193, 30 June 2015, Pages 51-61 (article available on Science Direct)
• Stuttering and ADHD
  • ADHD and Stuttering: A Tutorial by E. Charles Healey and Robert Reid (article was published in the Journal of Fluency Disorders (2003), Vol. 28, pp. 79-93)

Drugs and Stuttering

• Drugs and Stuttering by Judy Kuster, includes a section on drugs which may have a side effect of (or exacerbate) stuttering

Reports of "Unusual Stuttering"

• Penmanship Stuttering by E. W. Scripture, Ph.D., M.D., visiting physician for Speech Defects to Randall's Island, New York City, reprinted from Journal of AMA, May 8, 1909, p. 1480-1481
• Stuttering playing musical instruments
  • Ann Packman and Mark Onslow (1999) Fluency Disruption in Speech and in Wind Instrument Playing, Journal of Fluency Disorders, Vol 24, Issue 4, pp. 293-298
  • Meltzer, A. (1992). Horn Stuttering. JOURNAL OF FLUENCY DISORDERS, 17, 4. 257-264
  • Silverman, Franklin H and Bohlman, Patricia (1988) Flute Stuttering, Journal of Fluency Disorders 13, 427-428.
  • Van Riper, Charles (1952) Report of Stuttering on a Musical Instrument, Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 17, 433-434.
• Stuttering in Sign Language
  • The Existence of Stuttering in Sign Language and other Forms of Expressive Communication: Sufficient Cause for the Emergence of a New Stuttering Paradigm by Greg Snyder, ISAD online conference paper, 2006.
  • Stuck on the Tip of my Thumb: Stuttering in American Sign Language by Geoff Whitebread, Senior Honors Thesis, Gallaudet University, 2004

Spasmodic Dysphonia

• Spasmodic Dysphonia? for the National Institute on Deafness and Com
• Several samples of various diagnoses of spasmodic dysphonia YouTube from The National Spasmodic Dysphonia Association
• Neurological Concomitants in Spasmodic Dysphonia a student project by Lynn Dee Harrelson.

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