Howell, P; Sorger, C; Alsulaiman, R; Yang, Z; (2023) Screening and interventions for developmental fluency disorders. In: Guendouzi, J and Loncke, F and Williams, MJ, (eds.) The Routledge International Handbook of Psycholinguistic and Cognitive Processes. (pp. 347-366). Routledge: London, UK.

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This chapter considers work aimed at addressing the characterization of stuttering and its developmental changes. It starts by examining the EXPLAN model of developmental stuttering and justifies its use by considering supportive evidence. Specific fluency failure patterns are described that, according to EXPLAN, account for how different symptom types are associated with different types of communicative disorders. Phonological performance, measured by the universal non-word repetition task, is proposed as a sensitive screening procedure that can identify children who stutter, and separate them from children who have word-finding difficulty alone that affects their speech. The latter part of the chapter looks at extending the non-word repetition tests to accommodate languages with different phonetics and phonological features from English, such as Arabic.

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