Neural Processes Underlying Nonword Rhyme Differentiate Eventual Stuttering Persistence and Recovery.

ABSTRACT: Purpose Phonological skills have been associated with developmental stuttering. The current study aimed to determine whether the neural processes underlying phonology, specifically for nonword rhyming, differentiated stuttering persistence and recovery. Method Twenty-six children who stutter (CWS) and 18 children who do not stutter, aged 5 years, completed an auditory nonword rhyming task. Event-related brain potentials were elicited by prime, rhyming, and nonrhyming targets. CWS were followed longitudinally to determine eventual persistence (n = 14) or recovery (n = 12). This is a retrospective analysis of data acquired when all CWS presented as stuttering. Results CWS who eventually recovered and children who do not stutter exhibited the expected rhyme effect, with larger e

SUBMITTER: Hampton Wray A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7872734 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature