Analysis of cumulative risk predictors for persistent stuttering: family perception and amount of speech disruptions.
Julia Biancalana Costa, Fabiola Juste, Ana Paula Ritto and 2 others
PMID 37971052WHAT IT FOUND
Across 452 children, children with 3% or more disruptions and family complaints were mostly boys and differed from fluent children in disruption profiles.
The study did not follow children over time, so it cannot predict persistent stuttering.
Key findings
01Groups with family complaints had more male children: the stuttering-with-complaint group had 112 male children (70.9%) and 46 female children (29.1%), and the fluent-with-complaint group had 62 male children (66.0%) and 32 female children (34.0%).
02The groups differed for total common and stuttering disruptions, and the stuttering-with-complaint group differed from the other groups for nearly all stuttering disruption variables analysed.
03Forty-two children had 3% or more disruptions but no family complaints, while 158 children had 3% or more disruptions and family complaints.
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What it does not show
This is a retrospective cross-sectional analysis of existing speech samples, so it compares groups at the time of the samples and cannot show which children will develop persistent stuttering. The authors state that family history of persistent stuttering, time from symptom onset, and family attitudes were not analysed here. The article says informed consent was not required for this design, but it also says children were excluded if families did not consent to participation.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read these groups as predictors of persistent stuttering. The study did not follow children over time, so it can describe differences between children with and without family complaints and disruption counts, but it cannot tell which child will still stutter later.