Monday, April 13, 2009

Research - Dan Guglielmo

2. Article, Stuttering Behavior in Older Adults, Michelle Lincoln, Patricia McCabe, Disability and Rehabilitiation, 2009, Vol. 31 Issue 8, p646-658, 13p.

About: The prevalance in adult stutterers and how they interact in the community for all those years.

Abstract: To measure and describe the speech characteristics of a group of 16 people over the age of 55 years who self-reported stuttering into adulthood. Design. A cross-sectional, descriptive design was used. Subjects. Sixteen participants were divided into two groups: a group of 12, (mean age 68.8) who self-reported that they continued to stutter in older age, and a group of four who self-reported recovery from stuttering in adulthood (mean age 75.5).

Dan Guglielmo

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