The impact of stuttering on quality of life of children and adolescents

• Autor(a) principal: Chun,Regina Yu Shon
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Outros Autores: Mendes,Carina Dantas, Yaruss,J Scott, Quesal,Robert W
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Pró-fono (Online)
• Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-56872010000400035
• topic: Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences; Quality of Life; Stuttering

BACKGROUND: understanding the experience of people who stutter, both in and out treatment, will lead to improved outcomes. AIM: to investigate how stuttering affects the quality of life of children and adolescents who stutter. METHOD: the Overall Assessment of the Speaker's Experience of Stuttering - School-Age (OASES-S) was used to assess the impact of stuttering and the Fluency Profile Protocol was used to stuttering severity. RESULTS: these age groups do experience moderate negative impact as measured by the OASES-S. The results showed a tendency toward a positive correlation between severity and the impact of stuttering on quality of life. CONCLUSION: a better understanding of the impact of stuttering in these age groups provides a needed guide for the development of stuttering treatments and treatment outcomes research.