It has been a busy year for the EST
project this far. In several upcoming blogpost we will tell you about newly
published studies from researchers in the project.
You can read post doc in the EST-project
Linn Stokke Guttormsen and co-authors J. Scott Yaruss and Kari-Anne Bottegård
Næss newest paper “Parents' Perceptions of the Overall Impact of Stuttering on
Young Children” here: https://pubs.asha.org/doi/abs/10.1044/2021_AJSLP-20-00113
In their study, an adaptation of the
Overall Assessment of the Speaker's Experience of Stuttering for School-Age
Children was designed to ask parents about their perceptions of the impact of
stuttering on their young children. Thirty-eight parents of young children who
stutter participated. Results indicated that, on average, parents perceived
that stuttering affected their children negatively; stuttering was perceived by some parents
to affect the children’s mood, self-confidence, and social participation during
stuttering moments or periods with stuttering. Furthermore, parent reports
revealed that impact of stuttering can change with communication partners or
situations. Parents' perceptions of impact are important for clinicians to
consider when giving recommendations for therapy, as they can provide important
insight into the family's needs. It is also important assess the perspective of
the children if appropriate because present findings reveal that parents may
not have insight into all aspects of impact, in particular, cognitive reactions
to stuttering.
