Table 5.
Utterance Length and Complexity for Sentence Type Across Visits
| Visit | Sentences | Length | Complexity | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sentence Type | Total (%) | M | SD | M | SD | |
| I | ||||||
| Fluent | 1194 (74.9) | 5.03 | 0.60 | 6.86 | 1.17 | |
| with OD | 131 (8.2) | 6.18 | 1.64 | 8.69 | 2.62 | |
| with SLD | 177 (11.1) | 6.35 | 1.22 | 9.01 | 3.56 | |
| OD & SLD | 92 (5.8) | 7.28 | 1.43 | 9.65 | 2.67 | |
| II | ||||||
| Fluent | 736 (73.0) | 5.52 | 0.69 | 7.85 | 1.37 | |
| with OD | 104 (10.3) | 6.63 | 1.34 | 10.26 | 5.64 | |
| with SLD | 106 (10.5) | 6.50 | 2.26 | 9.32 | 4.70 | |
| OD & SLD | 62 (6.2) | 8.37 | 2.12 | 11.33 | 3.81 | |
| III | ||||||
| Fluent | 1349 (76.9) | 5.57 | 0.56 | 7.94 | 0.89 | |
| with OD | 172 (9.8) | 6.93 | 1.31 | 9.86 | 2.54 | |
| with SLD | 155 (8.8) | 8.17 | 1.55 | 10.60 | 3.04 | |
| OD & SLD | 79 (4.5) | 8.83 | 1.61 | 11.55 | 3.81 | |
| IV | ||||||
| Fluent | 1118 (80.9) | 5.45 | 0.38 | 8.24 | 1.18 | |
| with OD | 113 (8.2) | 7.79 | 1.93 | 11.84 | 3.20 | |
| with SLD | 102 (7.4) | 6.57 | 1.83 | 9.82 | 1.90 | |
| OD and SLD | 48 (3.5) | 8.31 | 1.47 | 9.99 | 2.34 | |
| V | ||||||
| Fluent | 1669 (80.1) | 5.55 | 0.45 | 8.38 | 1.17 | |
| with OD | 187 (9.0) | 7.53 | 1.57 | 11.34 | 3.77 | |
| with SLD | 156 (7.5) | 7.25 | 1.27 | 8.88 | 3.12 | |
| OD & SLD | 71 (3.4) | 8.26 | 2.04 | 12.29 | 3.55 | |
| Overall | ||||||
| Fluent | 6125 (77.7) | 5.42 | 0.56 | 7.73 | 1.25 | |
| with OD | 707 (9.0) | 7.01 | 1.63 | 10.40 | 3.77 | |
| with SLD | 696 (8.8) | 6.97 | 1.75 | 10.05 | 3.31 | |
| OD & SLD | 352 (4.5) | 8.21 | 1.73 | 10.92 | 2.92 | |
Note: Data based on conversational samples from 12 children; OD = contains at least one other disflency; SLD = contains at least one stuttering-like disfluency; Length = mean words per utterance; Complexity = Developmental Sentence Score.