Comparison of Three Measures of Stuttering Severity

Authors

Dorothy Sherman, State University of IowaFollow
Martin Young, State University of Iowa
Kenneth Gough, State University of Iowa

Document Type

Research

Abstract

Various measures of severity of stuttering are available and are used both clinically and experimentally. Information concerning the relationships among these various measures thus should be useful in planning effective therapy or in designing experiments. In a previous study Sherman and Trotter (4) evaluated the relationship between two measures of the severity of stuttering. One measure was the mean scale value of severity of individual moments of stuttering derived from listeners' responses; the other measure was frequency of stuttering. Measures were taken on tape-recorded readings of a 500-word passage. The obtained estimate of the strength of relationship was a Pearson r of .61.

Publication Date

1958

Journal Title

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

Volume

65

Issue

1

First Page

381

Last Page

384

Copyright

©1958 Iowa Academy of Science, Inc.

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

Recommended Citation

Sherman, Dorothy; Young, Martin; and Gough, Kenneth (1958) "Comparison of Three Measures of Stuttering Severity," Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science, 65(1), 381-384.
Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/pias/vol65/iss1/57