Influence of Multisyllabic Word Repetitions on Severity Measures of Monolingual Spanish-Speaking Children who Stutter

Jennifer B. Watson and Courtney T. Byrd

The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of multisyllabic word repetitions on severity measures of speech disfluencies exhibited by monolingual Spanish-speaking children who stutter. Specifically, Stuttering Severity Instrument-3 and weighted stuttering-like disfluencies scores were determined with and without multisyllabic word repetitions. Results are discussed in terms of the cross-linguistic use of metrics to describe stuttering.