Some Aspects of Fluency in Children - (4-5Years)

Abstract

This study aimed at assessing the disfluencies in normal children (4-5 years). Twelve Kannada speaking children (two each in two months interval) from
middle socio-economic status were considered for the study. Speech was elicited through four tasks namely conversation, rhymes, picture description and story
telling and the speech sample was recorded and a descriptive analysis of their disfluencies was done for each task. The kinds of disfluencies anlaysed included.
Filled pauses, unfilled pauses, parenthetical remarks, repeats (syllable repetitions, part-word repetitions, word repetitions and phrase repetitions), false
starts, prolongations and audible inspiration.