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. 2007 Mar-Apr;40(2):129-41.
doi: 10.1016/j.jcomdis.2006.06.003. Epub 2006 Jul 28.

Reaction to background stimulation of preschool children who do and do not stutter

Krista A Schwenk  1 , Edward G Conture, Tedra A Walden
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Reaction to background stimulation of preschool children who do and do not stutter

Krista A Schwenk et al. J Commun Disord. 2007 Mar-Apr.

Abstract

This study investigated the maintenance of attention and adaptation to background stimuli of preschool children who do (CWS) and do not stutter (CWNS). Participants were 13 monolingual, Standard American English speaking, 3-5-year-old CWS and 14 CWNS. Results indicated that CWS were significantly more apt than CWNS to attend to or look at changes in background stimuli, although there were no significant differences between groups in duration and latency of these looks. Findings suggest that preschool CWS are more reactive to, distracted by, and slower to adapt and habituate to environmental stimuli than their CWNS counterparts.

Learning outcomes: The reader should be able to: (1) recognize the temperamental differences between CWS and CWNS, (2) define attention reactivity and regulation, (3) explain how attention reactivity and regulation are associated with preschool stuttering, and (4) understand recent empirical evidence relating reactivity and regulation to preschool stuttering.

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Figure One
Number of looks per number of camera movements for preschool children who do (CWS, N = 13) and do not stutter (CWNS, N = 14) during 300-word conversational samples with their caregivers.
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Figure Two
Duration of looks per duration of camera movements for preschool children who do (CWS, N = 13) and do not stutter (CWNS, N = 14) during 300-word conversational samples with their caregivers.
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Figure Three
Latency to look following onset of camera movements (i.e., from onset of camera movement to onset of looking) for preschool children who do (CWS, N = 13) and do not stutter (CWNS, N = 14) during 300-word conversational samples with their caregivers.
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