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Disclosure Of Stuttering And Quality Of Life In People Who Stutter, Michael Boyle, Kathryn M. Milewski, Carolina Beita-Ell
Disclosure Of Stuttering And Quality Of Life In People Who Stutter, Michael Boyle, Kathryn M. Milewski, Carolina Beita-Ell
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
Purpose: This study investigated the disclosure practices of people who stutter, and the relationship between disclosure of stuttering and quality of life. Method: Participants were 322 adults who stutter recruited from speech-language pathologists and support group leaders. Participants completed a survey that contained items measuring level of disclosure of stuttering, as well as a global measure of self-rated quality of life. Participants were grouped into low, average, and high quality of life subgroups. Analysis of variance tests compared disclosure levels among these subgroups. Results: The low quality of life subgroup reported significantly lower levels of disclosure compared to both the …
Selecting An Acoustic Correlate For Automated Measurement Of American English Rhotic Production In Children, Heather Campbell, Daphna Harel, Elaine Hitchcock, Tara Mcallister Byun
Selecting An Acoustic Correlate For Automated Measurement Of American English Rhotic Production In Children, Heather Campbell, Daphna Harel, Elaine Hitchcock, Tara Mcallister Byun
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
Purpose: A current need in the field of speech–language pathology is the development of reliable and efficient techniques to evaluate accuracy of speech targets over the course of treatment. As acoustic measurement techniques improve, it should become possible to use automated scoring in lieu of ratings from a trained clinician in some contexts. This study asks which acoustic measures correspond most closely with expert ratings of children’s productions of American English /ɹ/ in an effort to develop an automated scoring algorithm for use in treatment targeting rhotics. Method: A series of ordinal mixed-effects regression models were fit over a large …
Self-Esteem, Self-Efficacy, And Social Support As Predictors Of Communicative Participation In Adults Who Stutter, Michael Boyle, Carolina Beita-Ell, Kathryn M. Milewski, Alison N. Fearon
Self-Esteem, Self-Efficacy, And Social Support As Predictors Of Communicative Participation In Adults Who Stutter, Michael Boyle, Carolina Beita-Ell, Kathryn M. Milewski, Alison N. Fearon
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
Purpose: This study aimed to identify contributors to communicative participation in adults who stutter. Specifically, it was of interest to determine whether psychosocial variables of self-esteem, self-efficacy, and social support were predictive of communicative participation beyond contributions of demographic and speech-related variables. Method: Adults who stutter (N = 339) completed an online survey that included measures of communicative participation, self-esteem, self-efficacy, social support, self-reported speech-related variables (speech usage, number of years stuttering, history of treatment and self-help support group participation for stuttering, and physical speech disruption severity), and demographics (age, sex, living situation, education, and employment status). Hierarchical regression was …
Self-Stigma And Its Associations With Stress, Physical Health, And Health Care Satisfaction In Adults Who Stutter, Michael Boyle, Alison N. Fearon
Self-Stigma And Its Associations With Stress, Physical Health, And Health Care Satisfaction In Adults Who Stutter, Michael Boyle, Alison N. Fearon
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
Purpose: The aim of this study was to identify potential relationships between self-stigma (stigma awareness and stigma application) and stress, physical health, and health care satisfaction among a large sample of adults who stutter. It was hypothesized that both stigma awareness and stigma application would be inversely related to measures of physical health and health care satisfaction, and positively related to stress. Furthermore, it was anticipated that stress mediated the relationship between self-stigma and physical health. Method: A sample of adults who stutter in the United States (n = 397) completed a web survey that assessed levels of stigma awareness …
Enacted Stigma And Felt Stigma Experienced By Adults Who Stutter, Michael Boyle
Enacted Stigma And Felt Stigma Experienced By Adults Who Stutter, Michael Boyle
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
Purpose: The aim of this study was to (1) document the experiences of enacted stigma (external stigma, experienced discrimination) and felt stigma (anticipation and expectation of discrimination or negative treatment by others) in adults who stutter, (2) investigate their relationships to each other, and (3) investigate their relationships to global mental health. Method: Participants were 324 adults who stutter recruited from clinicians and self-help group leaders in the United States. Participants completed an anonymous web survey consisting of measures of enacted stigma, felt stigma, and global mental health. Data analysis focused on obtaining descriptive statistics for enacted stigma and felt …
Eliciting The Language Sample For Developmental Sentence Scoring: A Comparison Of Play With Toys And Elicited Picture Description, Sarita Eisenberg, Ling Yu Guo, Emily Mucchetti
Eliciting The Language Sample For Developmental Sentence Scoring: A Comparison Of Play With Toys And Elicited Picture Description, Sarita Eisenberg, Ling Yu Guo, Emily Mucchetti
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
Purpose: This study investigated whether language samples elicited during play and description of pictured events would yield the same results for developmental sentence scoring (DSS). Method: Two language samples were elicited from 58 three-year-olds. One sample was elicited during play with a parent, and the other sample was elicited by an examiner asking children to talk about pictured events in response to elicitation questions. Results: DSS scores were not significantly different between the play and event description samples. However, sentence points were significantly higher for the play sample than for the event description sample. Although there was a correlation between …