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Prediction of Stuttering by School-Age Stutterers

Dean E. Williams
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa

Each of 84 stutterers, ranging in age from 8 to 16 years, indicated, before reading aloud each of 50 words, whether or not he expected to stutter when he said each word. The percent of stutterings predicted was determined for each of the 62 subjects who stuttered at least once. These stutterers varied considerably in their ability to predict their stuttering; the percentages of correct predictions ranged from 0 to 100. Approximately half failed to predict the majority of their stuttering. The older subjects were not significantly more accurate in their predictions than were the younger ones. Implications of the findings for the application of anticipatory-struggle hypotheses to the stuttering problems of children between the ages of 8 and 16 years are discussed.