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2007

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Eye-To-Face Gaze In Stuttered Versus Fluent Speech, Andrew Lee Bowers Iv Aug 2007

Eye-To-Face Gaze In Stuttered Versus Fluent Speech, Andrew Lee Bowers Iv

Masters Theses

The present study investigated the effects of viewing audio-visual presentations of stuttered relative to fluent speech samples on the ocular reactions of participants. Ten adults, 5 males and 5 females, aged 18-55 who had a negative history of any speech, language and hearing disorders participated in the study. Participants were shown three 30 second audio-visual recordings of stuttered speech, and three 30 second audio-visual recordings of fluent speech, with a three second break (black screen) between the presentation of each video.

All three individuals who stutter were rated as ‘severe’ (SSI-3, Riley, 1994), exhibiting high levels of struggle filled with …