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

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The purpose of this study was to determine the presence of any patterns reflecting underlying subtypes of persistence and recovery across epidemiologic, motor, language, and temperament domains in the same group of children beginning to stutter and followed for several years.

Methods

Participants were 58 2-4-year-old CWS and 40 age and gender matched NFC from four different sites in the Midwest. At the end of the multi-year study, stuttering children were classified as Persistent or Recovered. The same protocol obtaining data to measure stuttering, motor, language and temperament characteristics was used at each site. They have not been included in previous reports.

Results

The Persistent group performed consistently differently from the Recovered and Control

SUBMITTER: Ambrose NG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4546885 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature