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Compare Oro-Motor Speech (OMS) and
Total Language Score (TLS) in Children with Stuttering (CWS) and
Children with No Stuttering (CWNS)

Ms. Neha Tiwari, MASLP
Mrs. Namita Joshi, MSC SLP
Ms. Kiran Marathe
Ms. Yumlembam Pushranidevi

Abstract

Stuttering is probably the best known speech disorder; it is a multifaceted disorder which has been the area of interest for the researchers since two decades or more. It is perhaps the most difficult to define or explain and to treat (Yairi and Ambrose, 2005). The disorder being a complex clinical population is present in around 1% of adults in the world and about 2.5 % in children (Proctor, Craig and Peters, 2002). It was also observed that the age of 3 to 5 years is the most critical period for the beginning of stuttering, because it is during this time that children accomplish the task of learning the transformations of adult language and their motor structures and function develops. The present study aims to compare the diadochokinetic rate in CWS and CWNS. Participants were children between age ranges 5 – 7 years. They were divided in two groups. Group I will consist of 20 CWS and Group II will have 50 CWNS. Objective was to find the difference between total language abilities and oro-motor speech abilities in CWS and CWNS. The results reveal that CWS were poorer in total language abilities than CWNS, though this difference was not statistically significant {F=2.15 (1), (P>0.05)}. There is a significant difference {F=7.708 (1), (P<0.01)} in oro-motor speech abilities in between CWNS and CWS, majorly with oro-motor speech task which includes repetition of word, phrases, sentence and diadochokinetic rate. This shows that CWS faces difficulty in speech coordination tasks. The results support the notion that speech motor tasks in CWS are a problem area, which is neglected by most of the speech therapists. Implications of the present study will help in planning better treatment for CWS. As the population considered for the present study was very limited, so the results cannot be generalised. Future researches can be done on larger population to see whether the difference in oro-motor speech tasks varies with gender, severity and age.

Keywords: Speech disorder, stuttering, total language abilities, oro-motor speech abilities.

Introduction

Speech is the most effective medium of communication. When the medium of communication gets affected it results in social disturbances. Amongst all the disorders affecting social interaction, stuttering has received most attention (Van Riper, 1971). Children who start stuttering are at great risk for social isolation too. They prefer to keep to themselves and avoid social interactions. They also experience cognitive and emotional reactions like anxiety, fear, anger and helplessness because of their speaking difficulties. This can have a devastating effect on their interpersonal communication in complex ways, stuttering is interwoven with the language development of the children. Stuttering typically begins between 3-5 years of age, which is a time of rapid syntactic, morphological and lexical development, when children acquire the ability to produce complex utterances (Owens, 2012).

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Ms. Neha Tiwari, MASLP
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Mrs. Namita Joshi, MSC SLP
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Ms. Kiran Marathe
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Ms. Yumlembam Pushranidevi
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