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Is One Language Enough? Assessing Overt Stuttering Severity in Bilingual Children

For early bilingual children who stutter with high L2 exposure, assessing stuttering severity in one language may be sufficient.

Temperament Profiles and Their Association with Stuttering-Related Outcomes in a Clinical Cohort

Reactivity-regulation interplay shapes stuttering impact, especially in older children.

The association between self-perceived stuttering and social participation among older adults in Sweden: A population based cross-sectional study

In a large study of 8,518 adults aged 55-80, self-perceived stuttering (3.3% of men, 1.9% of women) was robustly linked to reduced social participation, even after accounting for key influencing factors.

Predicting the impact of stuttering in the school years

The impact that stuttering has on a child can be predicted to some degree by their temperament, level of anxiety and depression, age and overt stuttering, but not sex.

Attention Networks and Speech Disfluencies Among Monolingual Dutch and Bilingual Dutch-Turkish Speaking Children: A Pilot Study

Children’s disfluencies were driven mainly by task‑related cognitive load rather than attention or language dominance, with attention showing only limited influence in bilingual speakers.

Attention, Executive Functions, and Speech Disfluencies in Stuttering and Nonstuttering Individuals: A Scoping Review

Attention and EFs, particularly inhibitory control and working memory, influence speech fluency across populations.

Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder Demonstrate Increased Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech but Not in Reading

Adults with ASD exhibit increased stuttering-like disfluencies and word-final disfluencies in spontaneous speech, but not during reading.

Rehabilitation and Prognosis of Speech Fluency Disorders

Book chapter on treatment of fluency disorders and prognostic aspects

Sublexical speech perception and attention networks in bilingual adults who stutter: A behavioral and electrophysiological study

Stuttering impacts nonlinguistic, nonauditory alerting and executive attention in bilingual stuttering adults.

Multilingualism, Speech Disfluencies, and Stuttering: A Scoping Review

Multilinguals show similar disfluency types, but stuttering frequency and language dominance effects differ significantly.

Disfluencies and Stuttering in Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Populations

Stuttering assessment in bilinguals needs detailed, language-specific analysis to prevent misdiagnosis.

Stuttering assessment

This chapter discusses the basic aspects of the assessment of stuttering.

Basic knowledge of psychological approaches in stuttering

This chapter discusses widely-used psychological approaches in stuttering treatment.

Speech disfluencies and stuttering in bilingual children: diagnostical entanglements

Bilingual children’s disfluencies complicate accurate stuttering diagnosis; misdiagnosis risks persist.

Inhibitory control and cognitive flexibility in children who stutter

Stuttering linked to inhibitory control, cognitive flexibility, and speech disfluencies.

Speech disfluencies in autistic young adults and controls

Autistic individuals show more disfluencies; cognitive, linguistic factors influence speech.

Speech disfluencies in bilingual Lebanese children who do and do not stutter

Bilingual stuttering children show higher disfluency; differential diagnosis is possible.

Inhibitory control, cognitive flexibility, and the production of disfluencies in children who do and do not stutter

Reduced inhibitory control or cognitive flexibility contribute to more stuttering-like disfluencies.

Attention networks in multilingual adults who do and who do not stutter

Attention abilities of stuttering and non-stuttering multilinguals are similar.

Delay Frustration in Children who Do and Do Not Stutter: A Preliminary Study

Stuttering children show higher frustration, linked to longer disfluencies and physical behaviors.

Exogenous verbal response inhibition in adults who do and do not stutter

Severe stuttering linked to reduced inhibition; further research needed.

Becoming an effective clinician specialized in fluency disorders

This chapter explores improving fluency clinicians' effectiveness and specialist education.

Why early intervention is essential in preschool age children who stutter: a systematic review

Resources aid early stuttering identification, referral, and specialist-guided treatment decisions.

Identification of stuttering in bilingual Lebanese children across two presentation modes

Stuttering misidentified in multilinguals; judgments influenced by sample characteristics.

Clinical cases in dysfluency

“Clinical Cases in Dysfluency" explores assessment, management, and reflective practice.

Considering commonalities in stuttering treatment

Focus on why treatments work, not which is the best approach.

Building resilience through Camp Dream. Speak. Live.

CampDSL builds resilience, boosts confidence, reduces stuttering's daily impact.

Cognitive flexibility in younger and older children who stutter

Older stuttering children are slower, make more errors, indicating cognitive flexibility's role.

Temperament, anxiety, and depression in school-age children who stutter

Reactivity and self-regulation link to anxiety, depression in children who stutter

Temperament, Emotion, and Stuttering

Temperament and emotion influence developmental stuttering’s onset, persistence, and impact.

Temperamental and emotional processes

Temperament and emotional processes stuttering, and clinical implications.

Varhaisten Kielellisten Taitojen Ja Temperamentin Suhde Vanhemman Raportoimaan Lapsen Änkytseen FINNBRAIN-syntymäkohortissa

Early linguistic skills, temperament, and family history of stuttering predict fluency development.

Temperament, self-regulation and executive functioning in childhood stuttering

Temperament, self-regulation, and executive functioning play a role in stuttering.

Bilinguisme et bégaiement : revue de littérature et implications sur le diagnostic clinique

Bilingualism may increase disfluencies, complicating stuttering diagnosis in children.

Stawanie się efektywnym logopedą specjalizującym się w zaburzeniach płynności mowy

This chapter explores improving fluency clinicians' effectiveness and specialist education.

Speech disfluencies in typically developing Finnish-speaking children: preliminary results

Different guidelines might be needed to distinguish disfluency from stuttering across languages.

Speech disfluencies in bilingual Yiddish-Dutch speaking children

Bilingual Yiddish-Dutch children have more disfluencies, challenging monolingual stuttering guidelines

Use of monolingual English guidelines to assess stuttering in bilingual speakers: a systematic review

Studies often misapply monolingual stuttering guidelines to multilingual individuals.

Spraakonvloeiendheden bij tweetalig Jiddisch-Nederlands-, Turks-Nederlands- en een eentalig Nederlandssprekende controlegroep

Bilingual children show higher rates of disfluencies; monolingual guidelines are inappropriate

Inventaire du contenu des traitement du bégaiement en Wallonie et en Flandre

Stuttering therapy varies by region: Flanders focuses more on stuttering modification.

Inventarisatie van de inhoud en vorm van stottertherapie in Vlaanderen en Wallonië

Stuttering therapy varies by region: Flanders focuses more on stuttering modification.

Bimanual task performance: adults who do and do not stutter

No Purdue Pegboard differences found between stuttering and non-stuttering individuals

Temperament, emotions, and executive functioning in children who stutter

Children who stutter show distinct temperament and executive functioning profiles.

Funkcje wykonawcze w jąkaniu wczesnodziecięcym : przegląd badań [Executive functioning in childhood stuttering : an overview]

Children who stutter score lower on executive functions, indicating their possible role in the development of stuttering.

Exogenously triggered response inhibition in developmental stuttering

Children who stutter perform similarly to non-stuttering children on exogenous inhibition

Vergelijkende studie van de fonologische vaardigheden bij kinderen die stotteren en kinderen die niet stotteren

Comparative study of phonological skills in children who stutter and children who do not stutter

Speech disfluencies in children with Down Syndrome

Children with Down syndrome stutter more, showing unique disfluency patterns

Auditory attentional set-shifting and inhibition in children who stutter

Children who stutter show reduced accuracy in attentional shifting, inhibitory control

Atypical central auditory speech-sound discrimination in children who stutter as indexed by the mismatch negativity

Children who stutter showed atypical central auditory discrimination, but typical sound encoding.

European clinical specialization in fluency disorders (ECSF): participants review the first four years

ECSF participants express high satisfaction, impacting professional development positively.

Inhibitory control in childhood stuttering

CWS, as a group, were less able to inhibit prepotent response tendencies.

The efficiency of attentional networks in children who stutter

Some attentional processes were less efficient in children who stutter.

Responsinhibitie bij volwassen personen die stotteren versus niet stotteren

Adults who stuttered showed, as a group, reduced response inhibition.

The European Clinical Specialization on Fluency Disorders (ECSF)

This paper outlines ECSF development and key decision-making processes.

Temperament dimensions in stuttering and typically developing children

Children who stutter scored lower on effortful control, higher on negative affectivity.

Therapie bij schoolgaande stotterende kinderen

Chapter on stuttering diagnosis, behavioral therapy, parent and teacher guidance.

Factorial temperament structure in stuttering, voice-disordered, and typically developing children

Underlying temperament structure is similar in stuttering, control, and voice-disordered children.