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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.
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.
Speech disfluencies and stuttering in bilingual children: diagnostical entanglements
Bilingual children’s disfluencies complicate accurate stuttering diagnosis; misdiagnosis risks persist.
LE BÉGAIEMENT CHEZ LES ENFANTS D’ÂGE PRÉSCOLAIRE Quand faut-il faire appel à un logopède spécialisé?
Early intervention by specialists improves outcomes for children who stutter.
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.
Associations Between Social Anxiety, Physiological Reactivity, and Speech Disfluencies in Autistic Young Adults and Controls
Reactivity and anxiety linked to disfluency in controls, not autism.
Could linguistic and cognitive factors, degree of autistic traits and sex predict speech disfluencies in autistic young adults and controls?
Disfluencies influenced by cognition, syntax, and sex; impacts differ in autism.
Attention networks in multilingual adults who do and who do not stutter
Attention abilities of stuttering and non-stuttering multilinguals are similar.
Stuttering severity judgments by speech-language pathologists of bilingual children who do and do not stutter
Bilingual children who not stutter misdiagnosed due to frequent disfluencies.
Identification of stuttering in bilingual Lebanese children across two presentation modes
Stuttering misidentified in multilinguals; judgments influenced by sample characteristics.
A comprehensive analysis of speech disfluencies in autistic young adults and control young adults: Group differences in typical, stuttering-like, and atypical disfluencies
Autistic young adults' disfluencies exceed controls; broad evaluation recommended.
Bilinguisme et bégaiement : revue de littérature et implications sur le diagnostic clinique
Bilingualism may increase disfluencies, complicating stuttering diagnosis in children.
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
Spraakonvloeiendheden bij personen die niet stotteren (3-82 jaar) : invloed van geslacht en leeftijd
Sex influences the type of disfluencies, age influences frequency and type.
Speech disfluencies in children with Down Syndrome
Children with Down syndrome stutter more, showing unique disfluency patterns
