Journal article
Identification of traits associated with stuttering
Journal of communication disorders, Vol.39(3), pp.200-216
05/2006
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcomdis.2005.12.001
PMID: 16455103
Abstract
Stuttering has been considered a heritable disorder since the 1930s. There have been different models of transmission that have been proposed most involving a polygenic component with or without a major locus. In spite of these models, the characteristics being transmitted are not known. This study used two different tasks-a tapping task that is thought to probe hemispheric differences and a Stroop task, which appears to create interferences in speech motor programming and/or execution. The 48 participants in this study included individuals who stutter, high risk family members and controls for each group. Results indicated that for tapping at a comfortable rate, the experimental groups were significantly different from their control groups and for tapping at a fast rate, the stuttering and high risk groups were different from each other. The results of the Stroop test were not statistically significant.
Readers will learn about: (1) genetic aspects of stuttering; (2) hemispheric dominance in stuttering and high risk subjects; (3) understanding traits that may be associated with stuttering.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Identification of traits associated with stuttering
- Creators
- Anu Subramanian - Anne Sullivan Center Early Intervention Program, Lowell, MA 01886, USA. subramanian.anu@gmail.comEhud Yairi
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of communication disorders, Vol.39(3), pp.200-216
- Publisher
- United States
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.jcomdis.2005.12.001
- PMID
- 16455103
- ISSN
- 0021-9924
- eISSN
- 1873-7994
- Grant note
- R01-DC 05210 / NIDCD NIH HHS
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/2006
- Academic Unit
- Communication Sciences and Disorders
- Record Identifier
- 9984002346102771
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