The purpose of this study was to investigate characteristics of stutter children on the speech task. The speech task was automatic speech, reading, and monologue. we collect speech sampling during of task. In the study participated seven stuttering children of 7 to 12years old(4 males, 3 females) and seven nonstuttering children(5 males, 2 females).
The results of this study were as following. First, there was not significant difference between stuttering children and nonstuttering in the articulation rate. On the automatic speech task, stuttering children articulation rate was mean 171.60(SPM) and nonstuttering children articulation rate was mean 168.34(SPM). On the reading task, stuttering children articulation rate was mean 225.82(SPM) and nonstuttering children articulation rate was mean 218.09(SPM). On the monologue task, stuttering children articulation rate was mean 195.58(SPM) and nonstuttering children articulation rate was mean 191.95(SPM). Second, In the stutter children, dysfluency syllable number varied on the speech task. Also, stutter children, dysfluency syllable rate varied on the speech task. On the automatic, monologue task, dysfluency syllable number was mean 8.57syllable (SD=9.71), 20.71syllable (SD=13.47). On the automatic, monologue task, dysfluency syllable rate was mean 15.85%(SD=32.98), 29.00%(SD=19.74).
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