Linguistic aspects of stuttering: Research updates on the language–fluency interface

SB Brundage, NB Ratner - Topics in Language Disorders, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Purpose: Although commonly defined as a speech disorder, stuttering interacts with the
language production system in important ways. Our purpose is to summarize research …

Influences of methodological decisions on assessing the spatiotemporal stability of speech movement sequences

A Wisler, L Goffman, L Zhang, J Wang - Journal of Speech, Language, and …, 2022 - ASHA
Purpose: The spatiotemporal index (STI) is a widely used approach for measuring speech
pattern stability across multiple repetitions of a stimulus. In this study, we examine how …

Decontextualized utterances contain more typical and stuttering-like disfluencies in preschoolers who do and do not stutter

KE Oppenheimer, J Lee, YT Huang… - Journal of Speech …, 2023 - ASHA
Purpose: Stuttering-like disfluencies (SLDs) and typical disfluencies (TDs) are both more
likely to occur as utterance length increases. However, longer and shorter utterances differ …

[HTML][HTML] Brain activity during the preparation and production of spontaneous speech in children with persistent stuttering

HM Chow, EO Garnett, NB Ratner, SE Chang - NeuroImage: Clinical, 2023 - Elsevier
Speech production forms the basis for human verbal communication. Though fluent speech
production is effortless and automatic for most people, it is disrupted in speakers who stutter …

The impact of visual and motor skills on ideational apraxia and transcortical sensory aphasia

F Afshangian, J Wellington… - Applied …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Background Patients with extensive left hemisphere damage frequently have ideational
apraxia (IA) and transcortical sensory aphasia (TSA). Difficulty with action coordination …

Deficit or difference? Effects of altered auditory feedback on speech fluency and kinematic variability in adults who stutter

HC Chon, ES Jackson, SJ Kraft, NG Ambrose… - Journal of Speech …, 2021 - ASHA
Purpose The purpose of this study was to test whether adults who stutter (AWS) display a
different range of sensitivity to delayed auditory feedback (DAF). Two experiments were …

Conversational speech of school-age children after syllable-timed speech treatment for stuttering

L Brown, L Wilson, A Packman, M Halaki… - … Journal of Speech …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
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 …

Speech Elicitation Methods for Measuring Articulatory Control

CI Abbiati, KR Bauerly, SL Velleman - Journal of Speech, Language, and …, 2023 - ASHA
Purpose: Spatiotemporal index (STI) is a common measure of articulatory variability used to
examine speech-motor control. However, the methods used to elicit productions for …

Stalling for Time: Stall, Revision, and Stuttering-Like Disfluencies Reflect Language Factors in the Speech of Young Children

J Garbarino, N Bernstein Ratner - Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing …, 2023 - ASHA
Purpose: Disfluencies can be classified as stuttering-like disfluencies (SLDs) or typical
disfluencies (TDs). Dividing TDs further, stalls (fillers and repetitions) are thought to be …

Language sample analysis of conversation samples from school-age children who stutter: The role of syntactic factors in stuttering

J Sasisekaran, S Basu - Journal of Communication Disorders, 2023 - Elsevier
Introduction The purpose of the study was to compare school-age children who stutter
(CWS) and age-matched children who do not stutter (CWNS) in syntactic abilities and …