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Language Growth Predicts Stuttering Persistence Over and Above Family History and Treatment Experience: Response to Marcotte

Year: 2019

Type: letter

Abstract: Purpose This response addresses comments made by Marcotte (2019) regarding our recent publication, "Preliminary Evidence That Growth in Productive Language Differentiates Childhood Stuttering Persistence and Recovery" ( Leech, Bernstein Ratner, Brown, & Weber, 2017 ). Marcotte calls into question our finding that language growth is a valid predictor of recovery from stuttering because we did not account for treatment and family history. Conclusions In response to her comments, we provide additional empirical analyses couched in a larger discussion of the difficulty of calibrating treatment and family history of stuttering. In short, we show that once treatment history and family history of stuttering are accounted for, the effect of language growth remains a significant predictor of stuttering persistence.

Source: Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research

DOI: 10.1044/2019_jslhr-s-18-0318

Authors: Kathryn A. Leech, Nan Bernstein Ratner, Barbara Brown, Christine M. Weber

Institutions: Harvard University, University of Maryland, College Park, Purdue University West Lafayette

Language: English

Topic: Stuttering Research and Treatment

Subfield: Clinical Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders