The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of structured conversational turn-taking on the amount and types of disfluencies as well as on the speech rate of a 5-year-old boy who stuttered. A single subject design with measures of disfluencies under conditions of structured turn-taking versus no turn-taking was used (ABAB withdrawal design). All analyses were performed on tape recordings of dinner-time conversations in the subject’s home. Results appear to indicate that disfluencies decreased when structured conversational turn-taking was instituted and increased when turn-taking conditions were not enforced. The implications for counseling parents of children who stutter are discussed.
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