FluencyBank English Purdue Corpus

	Christine Weber Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences Purdue University christineweber@purdue.edu		Anne Smith Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences Purdue University asmith@purdue.edu
	Amanda Hampton Wray Communication Sciences and Disorders University of Pittsburgh hamptonwray@pitt.edu		Bridget Walsh Communication Sciences and Disorders Michigan State University walshb16@msu.edu
	Evan Usler Communication Sciences and Disorders University of Delaware eusler@udel.edu

Participants:	195
Type of Study:	clinical
Location:	USA
Media type:	audio not available
DOI:	doi:10.21415/P2JB-CA45

Citation information

Users of this corpus should cite the following publication:

Smith, A., & Weber, C. (2016). Childhood Stuttering: Where are we and Where are we going? Seminars in Speech and Language, 37, 4, 291-297.

Other publications relevant to this corpus include:

Walsh, B, Christ, S., & Weber, C. (2021). Exploring relationships among risk factors for persistence in early childhood stuttering. Journal of Speech, Language, & Hearing Research, 64, 2909-2927.

Usler, E., Smith, A., & Weber, C. (2017). A lag in speech motor coordination during sentence production is associated with stuttering persistence in young children. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 60(1), 51-61.

Usler, E. R., & Walsh, B. (2018). The Effects of Syntactic Complexity and Sentence Length on the Speech Motor Control of School-Age Children Who Stutter. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 61(9), 2157-2167.

Walsh, B., Usler, E., Bostian, A., Mohan, R., Gerwin, K. L., Brown, B., & Smith, A. (2018, September). What are predictors for persistence in childhood stuttering? Seminars in Speech and Language, 39,4, 299-312.

Walsh, B., Bostian, A., Tichenor, S. E., Brown, B., & Weber, C. (2020). Disfluency Characteristics of 4-and 5-Year-Old Children Who Stutter and Their Relationship to Stuttering Persistence and Recovery. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 63(8), 2555-2566.

Gerwin, K., Brosseau-Lapre’, F., Brown, B. Christ, S., & Weber, C. (2019). Rhyme production strategies distinguish stuttering recovery and persistence. Journal of Speech, Language, & Hearing Research, 62(9), 3302-3319.

Kreidler, K., Hampton Wray, A., Usler, E., & Weber, C. (2017). Neural indices of semantic processing in early childhood distinguish eventual stuttering persistence and recovery. Journal of Speech, Language, & Hearing Research, 60, 3118-3134, doi: 10.1044/2017_JSLHR-S-17-0081.

Mohan, R., & Weber, C., (2015). Neural systems mediating processing of sound units of language distinguish recovery versus persistence in stuttering. Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 7:28. PMID: 26284147

Usler, E., & Weber-Fox, C. (2015) . Neurodevelopment for Syntactic Processing Distinguishes Childhood Stuttering Recovery versus Persistence. Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 7:4. PMID: 25657823

Spencer, C., & Weber-Fox, C. (2014). Preschool speech articulation and nonword repetition abilities may help predict eventual recovery or persistence of stuttering. Journal of Fluency Disorders, 41, 32-46. PMID: 25173455

Project Description

Led by Anne Smith and Christine Weber (previously publishing as Weber-Fox), co-Principal Investigators, this project followed almost 200 children (CWS n=125 [27 F; 98 M]; TD n=70 [23 F; 47 M] for three years, starting at age 3;5 (age at first visit) to age 6;11. Key publications providing more detailed information about this project can be found in the articles referenced above which detail factors significant in predicting recovery/persistence in CWS by the ages of 4 and 5 years.

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