Exploring the Nature, Assessment and Treatment of Stuttering
Trial Parameters
Brief Summary
The purposes of this study are to 1) investigate potential speech, language, and psychosocial contributions to the experience of stuttering in monolingual and multilingual speakers, and to 2) evaluate interdisciplinary, telehealth, and speech-language pathology treatment methods and clinical training specific to fluency disorders.
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria: A participant will be considered a child who stutters (ages 2-17 years) if * their parent/caregiver reports concern that their child is a person who stutters, * they exhibit three of more stuttering-like disfluencies (e.g., sound/syllable repetitions, (in)audible sound prolongations, whole-word repetitions) per 300-word speech sample, or * they present with an overall score of 11 or higher on the Stuttering Severity Instrument - 4th Edition (SSI-4). A participant will be considered an adult who stutters (18+ years) if * they report they are a person who stutters, * they have received a formal diagnosis of stuttering from a certified speech-language pathologist, * they exhibit three of more stuttering-like disfluencies (e.g., sound/syllable repetitions, (in)audible sound prolongations, whole-word repetitions) per 300-word speech sample, or * they present with an overall score of 11 or higher on the Stuttering Severity Instrument - 4th Edition (SSI-4). Exclusion Crite