Analysis of Speech Dysfluencies in Preschool Children with Different Clinical Forms of Stuttering

Yulia Filatova

In Russian speech and language therapy practice, а clinical differentiation of persons who stutter is adopted. The purpose of this investigation was to quantitatively and qualitatively characterize speech dysfluencies exhibited by children with different forms of stuttering. The subjects were 11 children between five and six and a half years of age. We used Rustin Dysfluency Evaluation Instrument (1997). The results show that the increase in the number of speech dysfluencies at preschool children depends on complication of speech form. We will discuss the essential differences in characteristics of speech dysfluencies at children with neurotic and neurosis-like forms of stuttering.