title: Speech fluency profile in cluttering individuals.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Speech fluency in cluttering.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To characterize and to compare the speech fluency in cluttering and fluent individuals.
  
  
  METHODS
  Participants of this investigation were 14 individuals with ages between 8.0 and 40.11 years, of both genders, divided into two groups, paired by age and gender. GI was composed by 7 cluttering individuals and GII by 7 fluent individuals. The Speech Fluency Assessment Protocol was used to gather and to analyze the speech samples, taking into consideration the typology and frequency of speech disruption (SLD and OD) and speech rate, in words and syllables per minute.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Data showed that the groups differed regarding the occurrence of the stuttering-like disfluencies and other disfluencies, number of words and syllables per minute.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Cluttering individuals present a different fluency profile when compared to their fluent pairs.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Estadual Paulista. cmcoliveira@marilia.unesp.br
authors.forename: Cristiane Moço Canhetti de
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Oliveira
authors.forename: Ana Paula Lazarin
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Bernardes
authors.forename: Gabriela Aparecida Fabbri
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Broglio
authors.forename: Simone Aparecida
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Capellini
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013060:Speech / Q000502:physiology*; D013064:Speech Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology*; D013068:Speech Production Measurement; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric; D013997:Time Factors; D014705:Verbal Behavior; D055815:Young Adult