Effects of Emotional Processes on Speech Motor Control in Early Childhood Stuttering.

Description

This study will compare speech variability between preschool-age children who stutter and typically fluent, age-matched peers. Differences in emotional reactivity, regulation and speech motor control have been implicated in stuttering development in children. This study seeks to understand further how these processes interact. Children will repeat a simple phrase after viewing age-appropriate images of either negative or neutral valence to assess speech motor control.

Conditions

Stuttering, Childhood

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Study overview

This study will compare speech variability between preschool-age children who stutter and typically fluent, age-matched peers. Differences in emotional reactivity, regulation and speech motor control have been implicated in stuttering development in children. This study seeks to understand further how these processes interact. Children will repeat a simple phrase after viewing age-appropriate images of either negative or neutral valence to assess speech motor control.

The Influence of Contextual and Constitutional Emotional Processes on Speech Motor Control and Speech Motor Learning in Early Childhood Stuttering

Effects of Emotional Processes on Speech Motor Control in Early Childhood Stuttering.

Condition
Stuttering, Childhood
Intervention / Treatment

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Contacts and Locations

Syracuse

Syracuse University, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Syracuse, New York, United States, 13244

Participation Criteria

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Eligibility Criteria

  • 1. English as the primary language of communication.
  • 2. No history of neurological diseases or diagnosed speech-language disorders apart from stuttering.
  • 3. Parent report or direct observation of oral-facial structural abnormalities (such as cleft lip and/or cleft palate).
  • 4. Free of any medications that may affect neural functions (e.g., medications of seizures).
  • 5. Normal hearing acuity (must pass a hearing screening).
  • 6. Normal vision per parent report.
  • 1. Failure to meet the inclusionary criteria listed above
  • 2. Parental report of neurodevelopmental disorders (such as autism spectrum disorders)
  • 3. Parental report of vision problems that are not corrected or corrected with glasses.

Ages Eligible for Study

3 Years to 10 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Collaborators and Investigators

Syracuse University,

Victoria Tumanova, PhD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, Syracuse University

Study Record Dates

2024-03-01