Parents of children who stutter often are advised to eliminate or reduce the number of questions they ask a child because of the belief that questions elicit or maintain stuttering. This study compares the effects of questions and requests for verbal responses to comments, studying three preschool-age boys who stutter. Results showed that stuttering did not vary systematically with the experimenter's questions or requests and comments but occurred more frequently in the children's longer utterances. No support was found for the belief that adults' questions or requests elicit more stuttering than do comments.
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