Showing papers in "Journal of Fluency Disorders in 1978"

TL;DR: In another study as mentioned in this paper, mothers of school-aged male stutterers were found to perceive their children as being more insecure, sensitive, anxious, withdrawn, fearful, and introverted than did mothers of nonstutterers.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors concluded that the possibility of differences between males and females must be considered in any etiological research in stuttering and supported a threshold model for the sex difference.

TL;DR: This paper found that the fluent speech of partially and successfully treated stutterers was perceptibly different from the utterances of normal speakers sampled, and that all stuttering groups had a significant severity factor.

TL;DR: In this article, a study was conducted to investigate the factors involved in the recovery from incipient stuttering without therapeutic intervention and found that 80% of the children recovered spontaneously from stuttering, and subjects who exhibited more types and frequencies of disfluencies upon onset had a poorer prognosis for recovery.

TL;DR: The effect of communicative stress on the frequency of stuttered syllables in 12 adult stutterers reading six different but equivalent passages using normal voicing, whispering, and articulation-without-phonation speech under a stress and a non-stress condition was studied as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: The authors assessed the effect of increasing the difficulty of reading material on the frequency and type of disfluency in elementary school stutterers, and determined the relationship between the amount and type disfluencies exhibited during oral reading and spontaneous speech.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted a study to determine if the three populations differed in communication attitude and found that normal speakers revealed the most desirable communication attitude; the communication attitude of the voice and articulation disorders population was less favorable than normals; the stuttering population was least favorable.

TL;DR: The authors used feedback procedures to progressively decrease the EMG activity of three stutterers during connected speech tasks and found clinically significant decreases in disfluencies and generalization of the treatment effects for an oral reading task, while one of the subjects also showed this effect for a conversational speech task.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe present dominant themes in stuttering theory, research, and therapy, and then suggest some directions that work in these areas might now take, but the recommendations offered are not all-inclusive, nor do they represent imperatives for future work.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors illustrated the primacy of individual differences in the relationship between physiological responses before speech and stuttering severity, and showed that individual differences can affect the severity of stuttering.

TL;DR: In this paper, a study was conducted to determine whether or not parents of stutterers are generally more anxious than parents of nonstutterers, and the situational anxiety attendant upon the viewing of their own children was compared with that of parents of articulatory defective and normal-speaking children.

TL;DR: In this article, some of the basic problems relating to the definition, measurement, and modification of fluency and fluency disorders have not received much systematic attention and some of these problems are examined in this article with a view to identify important research and clinical needs.

TL;DR: An item-by-item analysis was made of the scores of 178 five-to eighteen-year-old stutterers on the 27-item Cooper Chronicity Prediction Checklist for School-Aged Stutterers and a stuttering frequency estimate form as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, stable dimensions within the Stuttering Severity (SS) scale were defined and three additional scales were developed rationally, which indicated the existence of two major dimensions for stuttering.

TL;DR: This article found that stuttering frequency and the number of laryngeal adjustments during speech was positively associated with the frequency of stuttering, and that stutterers reported significantly greater stuttering during reading of the all-voiced passage (P ⩽ 0.05).

TL;DR: A problem-solving approach to the treatment of stuttering, called vocal control therapy, has been shaped over a 4-year period as discussed by the authors, which includes behavioral desensitization techniques as well as retraining vocal, respiratory, and other speech functions for fluency.

TL;DR: This article identified three types of phonetic transition defect, two of which occur within words and represent sites where stutterings are readily detectable, and the third involves movement from the end of one word to the beginning of the next.

TL;DR: In this article, money was presented contingent on stuttering behaviors judged to be aversive to the stutterer, and in which dramatically sudden, but long-lasting, improvement was seen.

TL;DR: In this article, the manipulability of Factor II avoidance response (arm movement) was investigated and the substantive hypothesis under test was that its suppression would be enhanced by repeated punishment sessions.

TL;DR: Using surface electrodes, mean microvolt values of laryngeal-area muscle activity were determined for 13 male and 6 female stutterers during 10-sec periods in which single words were silently read and stuttering expectancy was indicated as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, a group of six stutterers speaking to a 14-person audience for 40 min was divided into eight 5-min periods during which several consequence conditions were in operation.