Abstract
The emergence of awareness of stuttering has been an important factor in theoretical and clinical considerations for early childhood stuttering. The present research program is aimed at studying the development of awareness of stuttering-like disfluency in normally fluent preschool and first-grade children using responses to video speech samples. A total of 79 children in five different age groups were asked to discriminate between the speech (fluent and disfluent) of two puppets, identify with the one who speaks like them, and evaluate the disfluent and fluent speech of the puppets. It was found that from age 3, children show evidence of awareness of the disfluency used in the study, but most children reached full awareness at age 5. Also, negative evaluation of disfluent speech is observed from age 4. Theoretical and clinical implications are discussed.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 368-380 |
Number of pages | 13 |
Journal | Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research |
Volume | 44 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Apr 2001 |
Keywords
- Awareness
- Disfluency
- Stuttering
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Language and Linguistics
- Linguistics and Language
- Speech and Hearing