Speech disfluency in school-age children's conversational and narrative discourse

Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 153-163

  Byrd, Courtney T ^a   Logan, Kenneth J ^b   Gillam, Ronald B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Conversation; Narrative; School age; Stuttering

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861001145     PISSN: 01611461     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/0161-1461(2011/10-0068)     Document Type: Article

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