Journal article
Language skills of children during the first 12 months after stuttering onset
A Watts, P Eadie, S Block, F Mensah, S Reilly
Journal of Fluency Disorders | ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC | Published : 2017
Abstract
Purpose To describe the language development in a sample of young children who stutter during the first 12 months after stuttering onset was reported. Methods Language production was analysed in a sample of 66 children who stuttered (aged 2–4 years). The sample were identified from a pre-existing prospective, community based longitudinal cohort. Data were collected at three time points within the first year after stuttering onset. Stuttering severity was measured, and global indicators of expressive language proficiency (length of utterances and grammatical complexity) were derived from the samples and summarised. Language production abilities of the children who stutter were contrasted with..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This research is supported by grants from the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council and the Australian Research Council, and additional grants from the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute and La Trobe University. This research is supported by the Victorian Government's Operational Infrastructure Support Program. The embedded study forms the first author's doctoral project and was supported by the University of Melbourne and Murdoch Childrens Research Institute. The following authors are supported by the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council: Dr Reilly (Practitioner Fellowship 491210) and Dr Mensah (Early Career Fellowship1037449). Ethical approval was obtained from the Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne and La Trobe University. The first author thanks the ELVS-Stuttering team for the opportunity to complete the embedded doctoral study, and all of the participating children and parents.