Purpose We advanced a multifactorial, dynamic account of the complex, nonlinear
interactions of motor, linguistic, and emotional factors contributing to the development of …

Stuttering and Cluttering provides a clear, accessible and wide-ranging overview of both the
theoretical and clinical aspects of two disorders of fluency: stuttering and cluttering. This …

Purpose The purpose of this study was to systematically review the available literature on
various factors that can predict the persistence and recovery of stuttering in children. Method …

Purpose The purpose of this study was to determine if indices of speech motor coordination
during the production of sentences varying in sentence length and syntactic complexity were …

Background Five to eight percent of preschool children develop stuttering, a speech disorder
with clearly observable, hallmark symptoms: sound repetitions, prolongations, and blocks …

Purpose Surface electromyography (sEMG) is often used for biofeedback during swallowing
rehabilitation. However, commercially available sEMG electrodes are not optimized for the …

Purpose People who stutter (PWS) have more unstable speech motor systems than people
who are typically fluent (PWTF). Here, we used real-time magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) …

Purpose Stuttering involves a breakdown in the speech motor system. We address whether
stuttering in its early stage is specific to the speech motor system or whether its impact is …

This project replicates and extends previous work on coarticulation in velar-vowel
sequences in English. Coarticulatory data for 46 young adult speakers, 23 who stutter and …

Our aims were to 1) examine the neuromuscular control of swallowing and speech in
children with unilateral cerebral palsy (UCP) compared with typically developing children …