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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Loucks, Torrey; Kraft, Shelly Jo; Choo, Ai Leen; Sharma, Harish; Ambrose, Nicoline G. – Journal of Fluency Disorders, 2011
The purpose of this study was to investigate whether brain activity related to the presence of stuttering can be identified with rapid functional MRI (fMRI) sequences that involved overt and covert speech processing tasks. The long-term goal is to develop sensitive fMRI approaches with developmentally appropriate tasks to identify deviant speech…
Descriptors: Stuttering, Phonemes, Brain, Language Processing
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Ortega, Aishah Y.; Ambrose, Nicoline G. – Journal of Fluency Disorders, 2011
Purpose: Physiologic reactivity profiles were generated for 9 school-age children with a history of stuttering. Utilizing salivary sampling, stress biomarkers cortisol and alpha-amylase were measured in response to normal daily stressors. Children with a history of stuttering were characterized as high or low autonomic reactors when compared to…
Descriptors: Stuttering, Speech Impairments, Profiles, Sampling
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Sawyer, Jean; Chon, HeeCheong; Ambrose, Nicoline G. – Journal of Fluency Disorders, 2008
The purpose of the present study was (1) to determine whether speech rate, utterance length, and grammatical complexity (number of clauses and clausal constituents per utterance) influenced stuttering-like disfluencies as children became more disfluent at the end of a 1200-syllable speech sample [Sawyer, J., & Yairi, E. (2006). "The effect of…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Sample Size, Stuttering, Morphemes