Influences of rate, length, and complexity on speech disfluency in a single-speech sample in preschool children who stutter

Journal of Fluency Disorders

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 220-240

  Sawyer, Jean ^a   Chon, HeeCheong ^b   Ambrose, Nicoline G ^b  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Articulation rate; Childhood stuttering; Mean length of utterance; Speech sample

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FLUENCY DISORDER; HUMAN; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SAMPLE SIZE; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH RATE; STUTTERING;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; STUTTERING;

EID: 50249172226     PISSN: 0094730X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfludis.2008.06.003     Document Type: Article

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