Differential levels of speech and manual dysfluency in adults who stutter during simultaneous drawing and speaking tasks

Human Movement Science

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 643-654

  Saltuklaroglu, Tim ^a   Teulings, Hans Leo ^b   Robbins, Mary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b NeuroScript LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Drawing; Fluency; Linguistics, language and speech; Motor processes; Normalized jerk; Speech; Stroke duration; Stuttering

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRAWING; FEMALE; FLUENCY DISORDER; HAND MOVEMENT; HANDWRITING; HUMAN; KINEMATICS; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; READING; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; STUTTERING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; READING; REFERENCE VALUES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPEECH; STUTTERING; WRITING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349120406     PISSN: 01679457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humov.2008.08.003     Document Type: Article

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