Speech-Language Dissociations, Distractibility, and Childhood Stuttering
| Autor: | Chagit E. Clark, Edward G. Conture, Warren Lambert, Tedra A. Walden |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Linguistics and Language Stuttering Statistics as Topic Speech therapy Developmental psychology Cohort Studies Speech and Hearing Speech Production Measurement Speech articulation test Developmental and Educational Psychology medicine Humans Mass Screening Attention Research Articles Mass screening Observer Variation Preschool child Language Tests Speech Articulation Tests Otorhinolaryngology Child Preschool Female medicine.symptom Psychology Observer variation |
| Zdroj: | American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. 24:480-503 |
| ISSN: | 1558-9110 1058-0360 |
| DOI: | 10.1044/2015_ajslp-14-0198 |
| Popis: | Purpose This study investigated the relation among speech-language dissociations, attentional distractibility, and childhood stuttering. Method Participants were 82 preschool-age children who stutter (CWS) and 120 who do not stutter (CWNS). Correlation-based statistics (Bates, Appelbaum, Salcedo, Saygin, & Pizzamiglio, 2003) identified dissociations across 5 norm-based speech-language subtests. The Behavioral Style Questionnaire Distractibility subscale measured attentional distractibility. Analyses addressed (a) between-groups differences in the number of children exhibiting speech-language dissociations; (b) between-groups distractibility differences; (c) the relation between distractibility and speech-language dissociations; and (d) whether interactions between distractibility and dissociations predicted the frequency of total, stuttered, and nonstuttered disfluencies. Results More preschool-age CWS exhibited speech-language dissociations compared with CWNS, and more boys exhibited dissociations compared with girls. In addition, male CWS were less distractible than female CWS and female CWNS. For CWS, but not CWNS, less distractibility (i.e., greater attention) was associated with more speech-language dissociations. Last, interactions between distractibility and dissociations did not predict speech disfluencies in CWS or CWNS. Conclusions The present findings suggest that for preschool-age CWS, attentional processes are associated with speech-language dissociations. Future investigations are warranted to better understand the directionality of effect of this association (e.g., inefficient attentional processes → speech-language dissociations vs. inefficient attentional processes ← speech-language dissociations). |
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