Madison Tessler
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Research Mentor(s): Soo-Eun Chang
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Research Mentor School/College/Department: Psychiatry / Medicine
Presentation Date: April 20
Presentation Type: Oral5
Session: Session 6 – 4:40pm – 5:30 pm
Room: Breakout room 4
Authors: Madison Tessler, Megan Sheppard, Shanley Treleaven, Emily Garnett, Soo-Eun Chang
Presenter: 6
Abstract
Stuttering is characterized by disfluencies produced during speech and is often accompanied by an impact on quality of life. Children who stutter and persist in stuttering are met with social, psychological and economic ramifications that are long-lasting. Guided by previous research by Leech et al. (2017), this project compares children who stutter and children who do not stutter using a measure of syntactic complexity. Syntactic complexity is measured on the Index of Productive Syntax (IPSyn). Children who do and do not stutter were compared in terms of IPSyn scores using a t-test. Determining whether the groups present significantly different IPSyn scores will further aid us in understanding linguistic factors to developmental stuttering, which may improve therapeutic outcomes for children who stutter.
Biomedical Sciences
