Exploring the Nature, Assessment and Treatment of Stuttering

Description

The purposes of this study are to 1) investigate potential speech, language, and psychosocial contributions to the experience of stuttering in monolingual and multilingual speakers, and to 2) evaluate interdisciplinary, telehealth, and speech-language pathology treatment methods and clinical training specific to fluency disorders.

Conditions

Stuttering, Stuttering, Adult, Stuttering, Childhood, Stuttering, Developmental

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Study overview

The purposes of this study are to 1) investigate potential speech, language, and psychosocial contributions to the experience of stuttering in monolingual and multilingual speakers, and to 2) evaluate interdisciplinary, telehealth, and speech-language pathology treatment methods and clinical training specific to fluency disorders.

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Exploring the Nature, Assessment and Treatment of Stuttering

Condition
Stuttering
Intervention / Treatment

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Contacts and Locations

Austin

Arthur M. Blank Center for Stuttering Education and Research, Austin, Texas, United States, 78712

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * their parent/caregiver reports concern that their child is a person who stutters,
  • * they exhibit three of more stuttering-like disfluencies (e.g., sound/syllable repetitions, (in)audible sound prolongations, whole-word repetitions) per 300-word speech sample, or
  • * they present with an overall score of 11 or higher on the Stuttering Severity Instrument - 4th Edition (SSI-4).
  • * they report they are a person who stutters,
  • * they have received a formal diagnosis of stuttering from a certified speech-language pathologist,
  • * they exhibit three of more stuttering-like disfluencies (e.g., sound/syllable repetitions, (in)audible sound prolongations, whole-word repetitions) per 300-word speech sample, or
  • * they present with an overall score of 11 or higher on the Stuttering Severity Instrument - 4th Edition (SSI-4).

Ages Eligible for Study

2 Years to 85 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Collaborators and Investigators

University of Texas at Austin,

Courtney T Byrd, PhD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, The University of Texas at Austin

Study Record Dates

2035-05-22