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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY
卷 31, 期 5, 页码 2061-2077出版社
AMER SPEECH-LANGUAGE-HEARING ASSOC
DOI: 10.1044/2022_AJSLP-21-00209
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- National Science Foundation (NSF) [1449815]
- National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders Grant [R01DC015494]
- NSF [BCS-1626300/1626294]
The study aimed to compare the fluency of children's answers to questions and non-answer utterances to evaluate whether it is necessary to recommend caregivers to reduce question-asking behavior. The results showed that children who stutter are less likely to exhibit stuttering-like disfluencies when answering questions, while children who do not stutter are more likely to be disfluent when answering questions.
Purpose: Most therapy programs for young children who stutter (CWS) involve caregiver counseling and adjustment of caregiver behavior to maximize opportunities for the child to be more fluent. One component sometimes included as a recommended adjustment is a reduction in caregiver question asking, as question asking is hypothesized to increase language formulation demands on the child. However, there is limited research to guide clinician advisement to caregivers that has controlled for numerous potential confounding factors, including utterance length and grammaticality, that may impact potential stressors on children. Our aim was to assess whether there was an empirical basis for such recommendations by comparing disfluency profiles of answers to questions and nonanswer utterances produced by children during spontaneous play with parents and examiners. Method: We analyzed fluency and structural properties as well as pragmatic function of 15,782 utterances from language samples produced by 32 CWS and 32 children who do not stutter (CWNS) who were between 28 and 50 months of age. CWS and CWNS were matched on gender and age within 4 months and were matched as closely as possible on maternal education. Results: For utterances produced by CWS, answers to adult questions were significantly less likely to contain stuttering-like disfluencies than other utterance types, and this was still true after controlling for utterance length and grammaticality. In contrast, for utterances produced by CWNS, answers to questions were significantly more likely to be disfluent than other utterance types after controlling for length and grammaticality. Conclusion: Given the current findings, some prior research, and the documented potential benefits in language development for adult question asking of children, we do not believe that clinicians need to recommend changes to typical question-asking behavior by caregivers of CWS.
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