Methodological details, instruments, and an invitation to collaborate on multilingual stuttering research.
We are building one of the largest bilingual speech databases of stuttered and non-stuttered samples, spanning 8 languages and Hebrew.
We welcome clinicians and researchers to collaborate with us on our projects. Collaboration includes, but is not limited to, the items below.
To assess children's communicative abilities in children who do and do not stutter we use the Overall Assessment of the Speaker's Experience of Stuttering (OASES; Yaruss & Quesal, 2006, translated to Hebrew by Sveta Fichman). OASES-S (school children) and OASES-T (teenagers) are used with children who stutter, and the Speaking Ability versions (OASES-SA-S and OASES-SA-T) are used with children who do not stutter.
We adapted materials to collect speech samples using Frog story books. Pictures and scripts are culturally adapted to each bilingual group, and all materials are adapted for Haredi children.
The figure shows OASES scores in four sections for four children who stutter: general knowledge about stuttering (General), reactions to stuttering (React), communication in different situations (Comm), and quality of life (QoL). The 1–5 scale: 1 represents minimal impact of stuttering and 5 signals high negative impact. The figure shows high individual variation for the General and React sections.
