Disfluencies in the speech of language-delayed children.
This study attempted to determine whether language-delayed children receiving language therapy and language-delayed children not receiving language therapy differed from each other and from normal controls in the amount and type of disfluencies in their speech. Comparison of disfluencies in tape-recorded speech samples of three groups indicated that the one group of language-delayed children who received language therapy had significantly more word and part-word repetitions than the other two groups.
D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007805:Language Development Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy*; D007806:Language Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D007808:Language Therapy / Q000009:adverse effects*; D008297:Male; D013342:Stuttering / Q000209:etiology*