Profiling People who Stutter: A Comparison Between Adolescents and Adults

Profiling people who stutter (PWS) is a useful tool for synthesizing the results of an assessment and to consider the treatment plan. There are many types of treatment available with multidimensional characteristics that do not limit themselves to treating just the symptom of stutteringand which are differentiated for each person. Data from 300 children, adolescents and adults who stutter were used to establish the relationship between the overt and covert features of stuttering and they were profiled accordingly using the MIDA Profiling System. The findings reported are the preliminary exploration of the data from the initial participants of a larger study. Data indicate that there is not a direct relationship between overt stuttering and the impact of stuttering. Differences between the different age groups were identified.