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Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research Vol.51 836-850 August 2008. doi:10.1044/1092-4388(2008/061)
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The Influence of Stuttering Severity on Acoustic Startle Responses

John B. Ellis
Donald S. Finan
Peter R. Ramig
University of Colorado at Boulder

Contact author: John B. Ellis, 2501 Kittredge Loop Road, 409 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-0409. E-mail: john.ellis{at}colorado.edu.

Purpose: This study examined the potential impact of stuttering severity, as measured by the Perceptions of Stuttering Inventory (Woolf, 1967) on acoustic startle responses.

Method: Three groups, consisting of 10 nonstuttering adults, 9 mild stutterering adults, and 11 moderate/severe stutterering adults, were presented with identical 95-dB acoustic stimuli to elicit acoustic startle responses across 10 trials. Electromyographic recordings of orbicularis occuli activity were used to measure individual acoustic startle responses.

Results: Participant groups failed to exhibit statistically significant differences in initial acoustic startle response amplitude, mean acoustic startle response amplitude, habituation rates, and onset latency. Acoustic startle responses were characterized by high levels of variability across all participant groups but with highest levels of variability in the moderate/severe stuttering group.

Conclusions: The current results suggest that stuttering severity, as measured in this study, does not effectively predict acoustic startle responses in groups of adults who stutter.

KEY WORDS: stuttering, severity, acoustic startle response


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