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H E Fitzgerald

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PubMed1992

Assessment of sensitivity to interpersonal stress in stutterers.

The Willoughby Personality Schedule-R was administered to adult male Yugoslav stutterers who were not yet in treatment. Internal consistency of the WPS-R was assessed by computing item-scale score correlations. Twenty-two of 25 items were significantly correlated with WPS-R total score. Confirmatory factor analysis revealed three separate and reliable dimensions: Social Isolation (ssca .85), Social Confidence (ssca .74), and Social Sensitivity (ssca = .62), that were identical to those previously found for American stutterers. Although WPS-R scores were unrelated to several measures of stuttering severity, analysis of extreme scores suggested support for the hypothesis that general anxiety moderates stuttering severity. Overall the results are consistent with the contention that hypersensitivity to interpersonal stress is manifested in stutterers as general anxiety, which is better conceptualized as occurring along a continuum than as reflecting generic "overwhelming anxiety" in stutterers.

Adult↗
PubMed1986

Bimanual hand writing in right-handed and left-handed stutterers and nonstutterers.

Right-handed stutterers performed more poorly with their nondominant hand when writing digits and letters bimanually, and also made more nondominant hand mirror reversals than did nonstutterers. Left-handed stutterers and nonstutterers differed only in the incidence of mirror reversals with the nondominant hand. The results support the hypothesis that disorganization in the integration of left- and right-hemisphere inhibitory and excitatory processes may be an integral component of stuttering.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1985

Assessment of sensitivity to interpersonal stress in stutterers and nonstutterers.

The Revised Willoughby Personality Schedule (WPS-R) was used to determine its applicability for assessing social sensitivity in stutterers. Forty-one adult stutterers and 41 nonstutterers completed the WPS-R. Confirmatory factor analysis revealed three dimensions differentiating stutterers from nonstutterers. The dimensions--labeled social isolation, social confidence, and social sensitivity--were similar to dimensions of the WPS-R labeled as sensitivity to interpersonal stress by other investigators. The results suggest that the WPS-R may be useful for evaluating general anxiety and for monitoring changes in emotional reactivity as clinical intervention progresses.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1979

Development of articulatory competence in mentally retarded children.

Mentally retarded children participated in a verbal stimulation program developed at the Institute for Psychophysiological and Speech Disorders, Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Intensive home therapy was associated with an increase in articulatory competence in both moderately and profoundly retarded children. The development of articulation differed between retardate groups as well as with the sequence of normal phonological production. The results suggest that the order in which wounds are introduced into the therapeutic program may be a critical factor in the over-all development of competent articulation.

Child↗