Auditory abilities of speakers who persisted, or recovered, from stuttering

Journal of Fluency Disorders

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 257-270

  Howell, Peter ^a   Davis, Stephen ^a   Williams, Sheila M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Backward masking; Hearing; Persistent stuttering; Recovered stuttering

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; FEMALE; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; RATING SCALE; SCHOOL CHILD; SPEECH ARTICULATION; STUTTERING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; SPEECH THERAPY; STUTTERING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33750622768     PISSN: 0094730X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfludis.2006.07.001     Document Type: Article

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