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AUDITORY THRESHOLDS AND THE EFEECT OF REDUCED AUDITORY FEEDBACK ON STUTTERING
Author(s) -
Brown T.,
Sambrooks J. E.,
MacCulloch M. J.
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1975.tb00009.x
Subject(s) - stuttering , audiology , auditory feedback , psychology , fluency , tone (literature) , medicine , literature , art , mathematics education
The effects of reduced auditory feedback were investigated using an accurately calibrated binaudal pure tone producer on 27 stuttering children and 68 non‐stuttering controls. A comparison was made of both auditory hearing and discomfort thresholds in the two groups; the hearing thresholds did not differ between the groups. The results did however replicate an earlier finding which suggested that stutterers have a lower threshold for auditory discomfort than do normal speakers, and showed that fluency is inversely related to auditory feedback. The discussion suggests that a necessary cause of stuttering is a physiological abnormality in side‐tone conduction and central processing.