Conversational speech of school-age children after syllable-timed speech treatment for stuttering.
Purpose: The purpose of this laboratory study was to investigate whether rhythmic speech was primarily responsible for stuttering reductions in four school-aged children after the instatement stage of the Westmead Program of syllable-timed speech (STS) intervention. The study was designed to inform...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology Vol. 24; no. 1; pp. 42 - 53 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Feb2022
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