Identification of children's stuttered and nonstuttered speech by highly experienced judges: Binary judgments and comparisons with disfluency-types definitions

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 867-878

  Bothe, Anne K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral measurement; Disfluency types; Judge training; Reliability; Stuttering

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEASUREMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RELIABILITY; SCHOOL CHILD; SPEECH; STUTTERING;

CHILD; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; OBSERVER VARIATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STUTTERING;

EID: 48749133436     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2008/063)     Document Type: Article

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