Speech skill learning of persons who stutter and fluent speakers under single and dual task conditions

Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 38-57

  Smits Bandstra, Sarah ^a,b   De Nil, Luc ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b TORONTO REHABILITATION INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^d HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dual task; Learning; Sequence; Speech; Stuttering

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHONETICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; READING; SPEECH; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; STUTTERING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58649104700     PISSN: 02699206     EISSN: 14645076     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699200802394914     Document Type: Article

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