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Section I Some Characteristics and Theories

1 Common Characteristics

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Editors: Zebrowski, Patricia M.; Anderson, Julie D.; Conture, Edward G.

Authors: Ames, Angharad; Arnold, Hayley S.; Beal, Deryk; Beilby, Janet; Below, Jennifer E.; Byrd, Courtney; Choi, Dahye; Coleman, Craig; DiLollo, Anthony; Eggers, Kurt; Fortier-Blanc, Julie; Franken, Marie-Christine; Garbarino, Julianne; Gerlach-Houck, Hope; Gillis, Corrin I.; Hall, Nancy E.; Hearne, Anna; Herring, Caryn; Jackson, Eric S.; Johnson, Kia Noelle; Jones, Robin; Kelly, Ellen M.; Kraft, Shelly Jo; LaSalle, Lisa; Logan, Kenneth J.; Maguire, Gerald; Millard, Sharon; Nil, Luc F. De; Ntourou, Katerina; Ratner, Nan Bernstein; Reichel, Isabella; Rodgers, Naomi; Scott, Kathleen Scaler; Singer, Cara M.; Sønsterud, Hilda; Tendera, Anna; Theys, Catherine; Tumanova, Victoria; Usler, Evan; Wagovich, Stacy; Yaruss, J. Scott; Zengin-Bolatkale, Hatun

Title: Stuttering and Related Disorders of Fluency

Print ISBN: 9781684202539; Online ISBN: 9781684202638; Book DOI: 10.1055/b000000273

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Edward G. Conture, Victoria Tumanova, and Dahye Choi

Abstract

The purpose of this chapter is to describe and discuss some of the more common characteristics of stuttering, particularly in children. The chapter begins with a definition of stuttering, incidence and prevalence, the types of speech disfluencies most apt to be judged as stuttering, measures of stuttering and associated variables as well as nonspeech behaviors associated with stuttering. Following that, the chapter describes basic facts about stuttering, for example, variability, an important hallmark of stuttering. Finally, the chapter discusses some of the more common behaviors (e.g., singing) and conditions (e.g., delayed auditory feedback) associated with decreases in stuttering. Underlying the above information is the fact that stuttering begins in early childhood, with more children exhibiting mild than severe stuttering, and that more children recover (70–80%) from stuttering than persist (20–30%). Although the precise mechanism that causes stuttering to emerge in young children remains unclear, multifactorial perspectives suggest that causation involves interactions among a finite number of variables. Available information further suggests that stuttering does not randomly occur within an utterance; rather it appears to be associated with speech-language aspects of the utterance (e.g., adjectives, adverbs, nouns, and verbs). Some of these speech-language aspects associated with instances of stuttering may be unique to the individual who stutters (e.g., stuttering on words that begin with “f”), while others are more common for many people who stutter (e.g., stuttering on words in the beginning of the utterance).

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