study of disfluency type in Egyptian Arabic Normal non-fluent and stuttering children

ABSTRACT

The disfluency type was studied in 25 normal non-fluent Egyptian children aged between 7 ys. I m to 6 years and 52 stuttering children aged between 2 ys to 11 ys 5 ms. The two groups showed a highly significant difference for word repetition and a significant difference for syllable repetition. There was no difference regarding other types of disfluencies, namely, sound prolongations and blocks. The value of these findings was discussed in comparison to old and recent similar researches on English-speaking children