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Perspectives on Fluency and Fluency Disorders 18 69-77 August 2008.
doi:10.1044/ffd18.2.69 Copyright 2008 by American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
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Auditory Discrimination Deficits in Boys Who Stutter: A Preliminary Investigation

Lisa R. LaSalle, and Rachel D. Duginske

Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Eau Claire, WI

Our purpose was to examine the basic level of auditory processing skills in school-age children who stutter. We administered three auditory processing tasks—dichotic digits, temporal patterning, and auditory discrimination—from the Differential Screening Test for Processing (Richard & Ferre, 2006). Five 6- to 9-year-old boys who stutter were age-matched to five boys who do not stutter. Children who stutter showed significantly poorer performance on the auditory discrimination subtest. These preliminary results suggest that, for a subgroup of children who stutter, auditory discrimination difficulties may exacerbate stuttering and thus be a factor worth considering in clinical intervention.






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