Exploring the Nature, Assessment and Treatment of Stuttering

Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age2-85
SponsorUniversity of Texas at Austin

About this trial

The purposes of this study are to 1) investigate potential speech, language, and psychosocial contributions to the experience of stuttering in monolingual and multilingual speakers, and to 2) evaluate interdisciplinary, telehealth, and speech-language pathology treatment methods and clinical training specific to fluency disorders.

Eligibility criteria

Qualifiers

their parent/caregiver reports concern that their child is a person who stutters,

they exhibit three of more stuttering-like disfluencies (e.g., sound/syllable repetitions, (in)audible sound prolongations, whole-word repetitions) per 300-word speech sample, or

they present with an overall score of 11 or higher on the Stuttering Severity Instrument - 4th Edition (SSI-4).

they report they are a person who stutters,

Disqualifiers

None

Trial design

Treatments tested in this trial

  • The Blank Center CARE Model(TM) for Individuals who Stutter

Treatment groups

3,000 Participants
are divided into 1 treatment group

Sponsors and collaborators