Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7268041 | Journal of Communication Disorders | 2018 | 35 Pages |
Abstract
Findings support the use of the TOCS observational rating scales as one documentable, objective means to determine parental perception of and concern about their child's stuttering. Findings also support the notion that parents are reasonably accurate, if not reliable, judges of the quantity and quality (i.e., stuttered vs. non-stuttered) of their child's speech disfluencies. Lastly, findings that some children may decrease their verbal output in attempts to minimize instances of stuttering - as indexed by relatively low MLU and a high TOCS Disfluency-Related Consequences scores - provides strong support for sampling young children's speech and language across various situations to obtain the most representative index possible of the child's MLU and associated instances of stuttering.
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Authors
Victoria Tumanova, Dahye Choi, Edward G. Conture, Tedra A. Walden,