Exam 3: When and How Does Stuttering Begin How Does It Develop

Present and discuss (only) two arguments regarding the importance of scientific information about the onset of stuttering.

Discuss the male-to-female ratio. What differences are seen with age? How is the gender ratio affected by male and female differences in stuttering onset and natural recovery?

The statement that there is some overlap between stutterers and nonstutterers in the frequency of disfluencies in their speech means that:

What explanations can be used to account for the recovery that is labeled "natural recovery"?

The difference between the incidence of stuttering and its prevalence supports a substantial factor of natural recovery.

Stuttering before 18 months of age is not really stuttering

Shorter intervals between repetition units in speech of children who stutter, make their repetitions faster than those of normally fluent children.

The overall trend in the development of stuttering is:

What are the implications of the fact that most cases of stuttering begin between 24 and 42 months of age? Explain.

Van Riper's Track II children who stutter with poor articulation represented the majority of cases.

According to recent research on the development of childhood stuttering, which is true in regard to differences between children who persist and who recover? Children who persist tend to:

Onset of stuttering is rare after age 9 years.