Relation of motor, linguistic and temperament factors in epidemiologic subtypes of persistent and recovered stuttering: Initial findings

Ambrose, Nicoline Grinager; Yairi, Ehud; Loucks, Torrey M.; Seery, Carol Hubbard; Throneburg, Rebecca

doi:10.1016/j.jfludis.2015.05.004

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“…It is also unknown, in this mixed sample of young children (i.e., some participants will and some will not recover from stuttering), whether those who persist exhibit more positive than negative emotional reactivity (or vice versa) compared with those who recover. Such within-group differences between CWS who persist versus recover, however, would appear to be an intriguing topic for future research (see Ambrose et al, 2015, for empirical findings relative to this topic).…”

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“…Consistent with these findings, Ntourou et al (2013) reported that decreases in young CWS's distraction behaviors, an index of emotion regulation, during a frustrating task were associated with increases in the percentage of stuttered disfluencies. Likewise, Ambrose, Yairi, Loucks, Seery, and Throneburg (2015) recently reported that among other differences (e.g., lower performance on standardized tests of language), children with persistent stuttering, when compared with children who recovered from stuttering and normally fluent controls, were also judged by their parents to be more negative in temperament.…”

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Emotional Diathesis, Emotional Stress, and Childhood Stuttering

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Walden

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J Speech Lang Hear Res

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Purpose The purpose of this study was to determine (a) whether emotional reactivity and emotional stress of children who stutter (CWS) are associated with their stuttering frequency, (b) when the relationship between emotional reactivity and stuttering frequency is more likely to exist, and (c) how these associations are mediated by a 3rd variable (e.g., sympathetic arousal). Method Participants were 47 young CWS ( M age = 50.69 months, SD = 10.34). Measurement of participants' emotional reactivity was based on parental report, and emotional stress was engendered by viewing baseline, positive, and negative emotion-inducing video clips, with stuttered disfluencies and sympathetic arousal (indexed by tonic skin conductance level) measured during a narrative after viewing each of the various video clips. Results CWS's positive emotional reactivity was positively associated with percentage of their stuttered disfluencies regardless of emotional stress condition. CWS's negative emotional reactivity was more positively correlated with percentage of stuttered disfluencies during a narrative after a positive, compared with baseline, emotional stress condition. CWS's sympathetic arousal did not appear to mediate the effect of emotional reactivity, emotional stress condition, and their interaction on percentage of stuttered disfluencies, at least during this experimental narrative task following emotion-inducing video clips. Conclusions Results were taken to suggest an association between young CWS's positive emotional reactivity and stuttering, with negative reactivity seemingly more associated with these children's stuttering during positive emotional stress (a stress condition possibly associated with lesser degrees of emotion regulation). Such findings seem to support the notion that emotional processes warrant inclusion in any truly comprehensive account of childhood stuttering.

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Emotional Diathesis, Emotional Stress, and Childhood Stuttering

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Walden

et al. 2016

J Speech Lang Hear Res

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“…These range widely among familial, behavioral, and neurophysiological indices. Risk of persistence is conveyed by family history of persistent, rather than recovered, stuttering (Ambrose, Cox, & Yairi, 1997); differences in measures of cortical grey matter in the superior temporal gyrus and white matter integrity along the arcuate fasciculus (Chang, Erickson, Ambrose, Hasegawa-Johnson, & Ludlow, 2008); and motor abilities (Ambrose, Yairi, Loucks, Seery, & Throneburg, 2015;Walsh, Mettel, & Smith, 2015).…”

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“…Because 70%-80% of children are likely to experience spontaneous recovery from stuttering, it is of both practical and scientific value to determine whether or not there are features of early stuttering that can inform recovery. These studies have used a variety of metrics, including language proficiency scores close to onset and phonological encoding skill, including nonword repetition ability (Spencer & Weber-Fox, 2014) and phonological skills measured by standardized assessments Paden, Yairi, & Ambrose, 1999), dissociations among scores on standardized test measures (Clark, Conture, Walden, & Lambert, 2015), expressive language measures (Watkins & Yairi, 1997;Watkins, Yairi, & Ambrose, 1999), standardized language assessment scores over time (Ambrose et al, 2015), cortical processing indices of speech and language (such as event-related potentials; Mohan & Weber, 2015;Usler & Weber-Fox, 2015;Weber-Fox, Wray, & Arnold, 2013), and temperamental factors (Ambrose et al, 2015).…”

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Preliminary Evidence That Growth in Productive Language Differentiates Childhood Stuttering Persistence and Recovery

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Brown

et al. 2017

J Speech Lang Hear Res

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Purpose: Childhood stuttering is common but is often outgrown. Children whose stuttering persists experience significant life impacts, calling for a better understanding of what factors may underlie eventual recovery. In previous research, language ability has been shown to differentiate children who stutter (CWS) from children who do not stutter, yet there is an active debate in the field regarding what, if any, language measures may mark eventual recovery versus persistence. In this study, we examined whether growth in productive language performance may better predict the probability of recovery compared to static profiles taken from a single time point. Method: Productive syntax and vocabulary diversity growth rates were calculated for 50 CWS using random coefficient models. Logistic regression models were then used to determine whether growth rates uniquely predict likelihood of recovery, as well as if these rates were predictive over and above currently identified correlates of stuttering onset and recovery. Results: Different linguistic profiles emerged between children who went on to recover versus those who persisted. Children who had steeper productive syntactic growth, but not vocabulary diversity growth, were more likely to recover by study end. Moreover, this effect held after controlling for initial language ability at study onset as well as demographic covariates. Conclusions: Results are discussed in terms of how growth estimates can be incorporated in recommendations for fostering productive language skills among CWS. The need for additional research on language in early stuttering and recovery is suggested.

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“…These disfluencies are involuntary, occur at a higher frequency in relation to general population 6 and are considered the main characteristic of the disorder 7 .…”

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Prolongamentos na fala de adultos com e sem gagueira

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Purpose: to carry out a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the prolongations of adults who stutter and who not stutter. Methods: participants were divided into two groups: Research Group (RG, 15 adults who stutter) and Control Group (GC, 15 fluent adults). Procedures were: fluency assessment, Stuttering Severity Instrument and quantitative and qualitative analyzes of the prolongations.Results: there was a greater number of non hesitative prolongations in RG, whereas CG showed more hesitative prolongations in relation to the total of disfluencies. Non hesitative prolongations occurred more frequently in the initial and monosyllabic words, and in the medial position of the sentence in RG.Regarding the muscular tension and duration, a difference was observed for the muscular tension in the non hesitative prolongations, with higher mean value for RG. Conclusion: non hesitative prolongations occurred more frequently in RG, in initial words, monosyllables, and medial position of the sentence. Qualitatively, the muscular tension was a typical characteristic of non hesitative prolongations in RG. No differences were found for hesitative prolongations between the groups in relation to the frequency of the total of speech, the position of prolongations in the words and in the sentences, and for the qualitative characteristics, regarding to muscular tension and duration. Keywords: Speech Language and Hearing Sciences; Speech; Stuttering; Speech Disorders; Evaluation; Adult RESUMO Objetivo: realizar uma análise quantitativa e qualitativa dos prolongamentos de adultos com e sem gagueira. Métodos: os participantes foram divididos em: Grupo de Pesquisa (GP, 15 adultos com gagueira) e Grupo Controle (GC, 15 fluentes). Os procedimentos utilizados foram: avaliação da fluência, Instrumento de Gravidade da Gagueira e análises quantitativa e qualitativa dos prolongamentos. Resultados: GP mostrou maior número de prolongamentos não hesitativos, enquanto que GC mostrou maior ocorrência de prolongamentos hesitativos em relação ao total das disfluências. Prolongamentos não hesitativos ocorreram com maior frequência na palavra inicial e monossilábica, bem como na posição medial da frase para GP. Em relação à tensão muscular e duração, observou-se diferença apenas para a tensão muscular nos prolongamentos não hesitativos com maior média de ocorrência para GP. Conclusão: os prolongamentos não hesitativos ocorreram com maior frequência no GP, nas palavras iniciais, monossílabos e na posição medial da frase. Qualitativamente a tensão muscular foi uma característica típica dos prolongamentos não hesitativos no GP. Com relação aos prolongamentos hesitativos houve semelhança entre os adultos dos dois grupos quanto à frequência em relação ao total da fala, a posição dos prolongamentos nas palavras e nas frases e nos aspectos qualitativos, relacionados a tensão muscular e duração.

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Relation of motor, linguistic and temperament factors in epidemiologic subtypes of persistent and recovered stuttering: Initial findings

Cited by 109 publications

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Emotional Diathesis, Emotional Stress, and Childhood Stuttering

Emotional Diathesis, Emotional Stress, and Childhood Stuttering

Preliminary Evidence That Growth in Productive Language Differentiates Childhood Stuttering Persistence and Recovery

Prolongamentos na fala de adultos com e sem gagueira

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