Stuttering is a speech fluency disorder that is characterised by its involuntary core symptoms
sound prolongations, speech blocks and sound and syllable repetitions (Andrews & Harris …

Purpose: Despite ambiguity in meaning and usage,“fluency” has played a central role in the
understanding and treatment of developmental stuttering. The appropriateness of the term …

„One of the hardest things in life is having words on your heart that you can't utter.“This
quotation by the famous American actor James Earl Jones (Pine, 2011, p. 107), who was …

Purpose To investigate the effects of 4 fluency-inducing (FI) conditions on self-rated speech
effort and other variables in adults who stutter and in normally fluent controls. Method …

Relationship between Eight Physiological Variables and Severity of Stuttering Page 1 IOURNAL
OFFLUENCYD/SORDERS 3 (19;8), 181-191 181 Relationship between Eight Physiological …

Purpose: Most neural and physiological research on stuttering focuses on the fluent speech
of speakers who stutter due to the difficulty associated with eliciting stuttering reliably in the …

The role of neurolinguistic factors in stuttering was investigated by determining whether
individuals who stutter display atypical neural functions for language processing, even with …

It is a pleasure to introduce this issue, one of a continuing series of updates that Seminars in
Speech and Language offers its readers on recently released research findings relevant to …