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Byrd, Courtney T.; Logan, Kenneth J.; Gillam, Ronald B. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2012
Purpose: This study was designed to (a) compare the speech fluency of school-age children who do and do not stutter (CWS and CWNS, respectively) within 2 standard diagnostic speaking contexts (conversation and narration) while also controlling for speaking topic, and (b) examine the extent to which children's performance on such discourse tasks is…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Stuttering, Narration, Story Telling
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Mayer, Jamie F.; Murray, Laura L. – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2012
Purpose: Many adults with aphasia demonstrate concomitant deficits in working memory (WM), but such deficits are difficult to quantify because of a lack of validated measures as well as the complex interdependence between language and WM. We examined the feasibility, reliability, and internal consistency of an "n"-back task for…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Reaction Time, Aphasia, Short Term Memory