Plasticity in Recovery and Persistence of Stuttering

Many individuals who suffer from stuttering in childhood recover. This suggests that there is plasticity in the process leading to the disorder. This article summarizes the results of comparisons between fluent speakers and speakers who stutter (recovered and persistent) that were intended to elucidate details of this process. Socio-demographic, family history, speech and language, and imaging data are reported.

[1]  Peter Howell,et al.  Stuttering on function and content words across age groups of German speakers who stutter , 2004, Journal of multilingual communication disorders.

[2]  Peter Howell,et al.  Comparison of two ways of defining phonological words for assessing stuttering pattern changes with age in Spanish speakers who stutter , 2004, Journal of multilingual communication disorders.

[3]  Peter Howell,et al.  Exchange of disfluency with age from function words to content words in spanish speakers who stutter. , 2003, Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR.

[4]  P. Howell,et al.  Sociodynamic relationships between children who stutter and their non-stuttering classmates. , 2002, Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines.

[5]  C. Büchel,et al.  Disconnection of speech-relevant brain areas in persistent developmental stuttering , 2002, The Lancet.

[6]  Activate your online subscription , 2001, Neurology.

[7]  N. Martin,et al.  A Study of the Genetic and Environmental Etiology of Stuttering in a Selected Twin Sample , 2000, Behavior genetics.

[8]  Peter Howell,et al.  INTERNAL STRUCTURE OF CONTENT WORDS LEADING TO LIFESPAN DIFFERENCES IN PHONOLOGICAL DIFFICULTY IN STUTTERING. , 2000, Journal of fluency disorders.

[9]  P Howell,et al.  Exchange of stuttering from function words to content words with age. , 1999, Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR.

[10]  R. Ingham,et al.  Functional-lesion investigation of developmental stuttering with positron emission tomography. , 1996, Journal of speech and hearing research.

[11]  E. Yairi,et al.  Early Childhood Stuttering. , 1992 .

[12]  G. Andrews,et al.  The Syndrome of Stuttering , 1965 .

[13]  M. Halfond.  The onset of stuttering, research findings and implications , 1959 .

[14]  W. Johnson.  The Onset of Stuttering: Research Findings and Implications , 1959 .

[15]  Peter Howell,et al.  Predicting stuttering from phonetic complexity in German. , 2004, Journal of fluency disorders.

[16]  E. Yairi,et al.  Predictive factors of persistence and recovery: pathways of childhood stuttering. , 1996, Journal of communication disorders.