Characteristics of speech disfluency and stuttering behaviors in 3- and 4-year-old children.
The purpose of this investigation was to quantitatively and qualitatively characterize speech disfluencies exhibited by 3- and 4-year-old children who do (CWS, N = 36) and do not (CWNS, N = 36) stutter. Five measures of speech disfluency (e.g., percentage of total, other, and stuttering-like disflue...
| Published in: | Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 45; no. 1; pp. 20 - 35 |
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American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
February 2002
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