Speech Disfluency in Asperger’s Syndrome: Two Cases of Interest

Sisskin, Vivian

doi:10.1044/ffd16.2.12

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“…Similar to the findings of Plexico et al . () and Sisskin (), several instances of sound insertions (e.g. gravity‐sh‐ty) were noted among the samples of children with AS.…”

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confidence: 93%

“…Disfluencies were identified in studies of eight preschoolers on the autism spectrum (Plexico et al . ), one school‐aged child with AS (Sisskin , Tetnowski et al . ), two teens on the autism spectrum (Hietala and Spillers ), one teen with AS (Sisskin ), and two young adults with AS (Scott et al .…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Both participants demonstrated at least some awareness of their disfluencies. In her study of two individuals with AS, Sisskin () described two cases of students with AS, one aged 7 and the other aged 17, who both exhibited stuttering‐like disfluencies, including part and whole‐word repetitions and blocks; and non‐stuttering like disfluencies, including phrase repetitions, revisions and interjections. Sisskin reported that the majority of disfluencies observed in the school‐aged child and teen studied were either mid‐syllable insertions or word‐final disfluencies.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…, Scott et al . , Sisskin , Tetnowski et al . ), the frequency of word‐final disfluencies among these three populations was also examined.…”

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Preliminary study of disfluency in school‐aged children with autism

Scott

Tetnowski

Flaitz

et al. 2013

Intl J Lang & Comm Disor

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Background: In recent years, there has been increased identification of disfluencies in individuals with autism, but limited examination of disfluencies in the school-age range of this population. We currently lack information about whether the disfluencies of children with autism represent concomitant stuttering, normal disfluency, excessive normal disfluency, or some form of disfluency unique to the school-age population of children with autism. Aims: This paper explores the nature of disfluencies in school-aged children with autism in comparison with matched children who stutter and controls. It explores stuttering-like disfluencies, non-stuttering-like disfluencies and word-final disfluencies. Methods & Procedures:This study compared disfluency patterns in 11 school-aged children with Asperger's syndrome (AS), 11 matched children who stutter (CWS), and 11 matched children with no diagnosis (ND). Analyses were based on speech samples collected during an expository discourse task. Outcomes & Results:Results reveal statistically significant differences between children with AS and CWS and between children with AS and those with ND for the percentage of words containing stuttering-like disfluencies. In the AS group, four out of 11 (36%) met the common diagnostic criteria for a fluency disorder. Disfluencies in the AS group differed qualitatively and quantitatively from the CWS, and included a larger distribution of word-final disfluencies. Conclusions & Implications:This study provides initial data regarding patterns of disfluency in school-aged children with AS that, with careful consideration and the cautious application of all findings, can assist therapists in making more evidence-based diagnostic decisions. Findings offer evidence that when working with children with AS, disfluencies both similar and dissimilar to those of CWS may be identified in at least a subset of those with AS. Therefore, children with AS should be screened for fluency disorders during their initial evaluation and treated if it is determined that the fluency disorder negatively impacts the effectiveness of communication.

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“…Similar to the findings of Plexico et al . () and Sisskin (), several instances of sound insertions (e.g. gravity‐sh‐ty) were noted among the samples of children with AS.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 93%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…, Scott et al . , Sisskin , Tetnowski et al . ), the frequency of word‐final disfluencies among these three populations was also examined.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Preliminary study of disfluency in school‐aged children with autism

Scott

Tetnowski

Flaitz

et al. 2013

Intl J Lang & Comm Disor

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“…선행연구의 연장선상에서 본 연구는 초기 학령기 말더듬 아동들(만 6-8세)도 DP 중 막힘이 가장 높은 비유창성 유 학령기 고기능 자폐스펙트럼장애 아동의 비유창성 특성 연구 • 박희영 외 형임을 제안할 수 있겠다. 또한, 본 연구의 흥미로운 결과는 아스퍼거증후군 관련 선행연 구들(Plexico et al, 2010;Scaler Scott et al, 2014;Sisskin, 2006)에 서 보고되었던 낱말 끝소리 반복이 HF-ASD 아동들에게서도 관찰 되었다는 점이다. 본 연구에서 낱말 끝소리 반복은 SLD의 하위유 형으로 따로 분류하지 않고 낱말부분반복에 포함하여 비유창성 빈도를 산출하였다.…”

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Disfluency Characteristics of School-Age Children with High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders

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Park²,

Won³

et al. 2018

Commun Sci Disord

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Objectives:The purpose of this study was to investigate characteristics of speech disfluency in school-age children with high-functioning autism spectrum disorders (HF-ASD), children who stutter (CWS), and control children on reading, story retelling, and picture description tasks. Methods: Seven HF-ASD, 6 CWS, and 8 control children participated in this study. All participants ranged in age from 6 to 8 years and were matched for age and vocabulary ability. Speech samples were collected from three speaking tasks, and disfluency characteristics were identified and classified as stuttering-like disfluencies (SLD) or other disfluencies (OD). Results: Three groups did not differ in OD frequencies across the three speaking tasks. There was no significant difference between the HF-ASD and CWS groups in total disfluencies (TD) on the picture description task with SLD on the story retelling and picture description tasks. In the HF-ASD group, TD frequency in story retelling and OD frequency in story retelling and picture description were significantly higher compared to their reading performance; SLD frequency did not change significantly across tasks. In SLD subtypes, there was no significant difference in single-syllable repetition, part-word repetition and prolongation frequencies between the HF-ASD and CWS groups, but the CWS group produced more blocks than the HF-ASD group. Conclusion: These results demonstrate that, similar to children who stutter, school-age children with HF-ASD are disfluent in their verbal production except for reading. This finding suggests that the disfluent speech characteristics of HF-ASD children should be considered in evaluation and intervention.

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