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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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A Randomized Control Trial to Investigate the Impact of the Lidcombe Program on Early Stuttering in German-Speaking Preschoolers
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Lattermann, Christina; Euler, Harald A.; Neumann, Katrin – Journal of Fluency Disorders, 2008
In order to investigate whether the Lidcombe Program effects a short-term reduction of stuttered speech beyond natural recovery, 46 German preschool children were randomly assigned to a wait-contrast group or to an experimental group which received the Lidcombe Program for 16 weeks. The children were between 3;0 and 5;11 years old, their and both…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Articulation (Speech), Stuttering, Educational Objectives
Health and Human Services for Persons who Stutter and Education of Logopedists in East-European Countries
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Fibiger, Steen; Peters, Herman F. M.; Euler, Harald A.; Neumann, Katrin – Journal of Fluency Disorders, 2008
The International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (IALP) assessed the therapy status of fluency disorders, service opportunities, and education of logopedists (speech-language pathologists) with a mail survey in Eastern Europe. Information was collected on the following aspects: incidence, prevalence, availability of information,…
Descriptors: Health Services, Stuttering, Educational Objectives, Identification
Cortical Plasticity Associated with Stuttering Therapy
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Neumann, Katrin; Preibisch, Christine; Euler, Harald A.; von Gudenberg, Alexander Wolff; Lanfermann, Heinrich; Gall, Volker; Giraud, Anne-Lise – Journal of Fluency Disorders, 2005
Neuroimaging studies have indicated that persistent developmental stuttering (PDS) may be associated both with an abnormality in white matter of left-hemispheric speech areas and a right-hemispheric hyperactivity. The latter may compensate for the deficient structural connectivity in the left hemisphere. To investigate the effects of stuttering…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Stuttering, Hyperactivity, Brain