Stuttering. Adult onset fluency disorder
Conditions
Interventions
Intervention 1: Intervention group: The recipient of the gradually increasing the length and complexity of the utterance program . This program is
because children are preschool age. Protocol of program: Step 1: t
Sponsors
University of social welfare and rehabilitation sciences
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
4 Years to 6 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: At least 12 months have passed since the start of stuttering according to the parents' report. Children should be in preschool age (4 to 6 years old). Considering that the participants are selected from the waiting list, they should not have a history of stuttering treatment using the program of gradually increasing the length and complexity of utterance and phonological processing treatment in the 12 months before the start of the study, and other treatments are past, at least one month . The child's stuttering is diagnosed based on all three diagnostic criteria of Yairi and Ambros, meaning that: a. A speech and language pathologist will diagnose the child as stuttering. b. The severity of the child's stuttering on the 8-point SR scale by the parents should be 2 or higher. c. The child should show at least three SLDs in the spontaneous speech sample of 100 syllables. Not neurological damage, language damage, sensory and motor damage ,according to parents' reports and the relevant tests by a speech and language pathologist and medical documents . Not social and emotional disorders according to the results of the Vineland Social Skill Scale by a psychologist. Not using drugs that affect the results according to parents' reports and medical documents. The child should be monolingual and Farsi speaking, according to the parents' report. Not cognitive disorders ,according to Forward and backward digit span and Wechsler's non-verbal and cubes tests. Based on the hearing screening test (audiometry of frequencies 2000, 250, 500, 1000 dB), the child should not have a hearing problem. The child should be right-handed
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: The child's medical document is not complete. According to the parents' report and the medical documents, the child has be a disease that affects the results of this study Less than 12 months have passed since the onset of stuttering.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Stuttering severity, percentage of stuttered syllables or ss%. Timepoint: Three times before the start of the intervention and once after the end of the intervention and once in the follow-up phase one month after the intervention. Method of measurement: Speech Sample and counting, ? ?Stuttering severity instrument-3?. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Communication attitude. Timepoint: Before the start of the intervention, after the end of the intervention, in the follow-up phase one month after the end of the intervention. Method of measurement: Answer to the question. | — |
Countries
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Contacts
Public ContactAkram Valizadeh
University of social welfare and rehabilitation sciences
Outcome results
None listed