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Prevalence of stuttering and cluttering in adults with mental handicaps
Author(s) -
STANSFIELD J.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
journal of intellectual disability research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.941
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1365-2788
pISSN - 0964-2633
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2788.1990.tb01541.x
Subject(s) - stuttering , psychology , psychiatry , population , clinical psychology , audiology , developmental psychology , medicine , environmental health
. A survey (involving questionnaire, screening and assessment procedures) of 793 adults with mental handicaps revealed that 6.3% of the population had ideopathic dysfluencies. Issues in the differential diagnosis between stuttering, cluttering and other dysfluency are considered, and the contaminating factors involved in this diagnosis discussed.