Associated With Co-Existing Behavioral, Learning, Or Cognitive Challenges

General resources

• St. Louis , Ken (1986) The Atypical Stutterer, Academic Press, has a chapter by Eugene Cooper, "The Mentally Retarded Stutterer" which covers some basics of assessment with that population and gives an adaptation of his Personalized Fluency Control Therapy for this population.
• Treating Children Who Stutter With Co-Existing Learning, Behavioral, or Cognitive Challenges by E. Charles Healey, Robert Reid, and Joseph Donaher

Stuttering and Autism (and word-final disfluencies)

• Scaler Scott, K., Tetnowski, J. A., Flaitz, J. R. and Yaruss, J. S. (2014), Preliminary study of disfluency in school-aged children with autism. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 49: 75-89. doi: 10.1111/1460-6984.12048 (Abstract. The full article is also online on through the link on the abstract page under "article")
• Part I: Speech Disfluency in Autism Spectrum Disorders: Clinical Problem Solving for Autistic Disorders by Vivian Sisskin and Kathleen Scaler Scott
• Part II: Speech Disfluency in Autism Spectrum Disorders: Clinical Problem Solving for Pervasive Developmental Disorder, Not Otherwise Specified and Asperger Syndrome by Kathleen Scaler Scott and Vivian Siskin
• Autism Spectrum Disorders and Stuttering - brochure from the Stuttering Foundation
• Autism Spectrum Disorders by Kathleen Scaler Scott
• Autism Spectrum Disorders and Stuttering - a 2.5 hour DVD featuring Vivian Sisskin from the Stuttering Foundation - $10
• Kathleen Scaler Scott article Dysfluency in Autism Spectrum Disorders in Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences Volume 193, 30 June 2015, Pages 239-245 10th Oxford Dysfluency Conference, ODC 2014, 17 - 20 July, 2014, Oxford, United kingdom (Conference Proceedings)
• Kathleen Scaler Scott, Sheri Block, Nina Reeves, Sarah Nelson Speech Disfluency and Autism in Schools: Identifying Needs and Providing Support to SLPsProcedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences Volume 193, 30 June 2015, Pages 223-227 10th Oxford Dysfluency Conference, ODC 2014, 17 - 20 July, 2014, Oxford, United kingdom (Conference Proceedings)
• Kearston T. Healey, Sarah Nelson, Kathleen Scaler Scott's article Word-final Dysfluencies in Conversation of a Child with Autism: A Treatment Case Study in Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences Volume 193, 30 June 2015, Pages 147-152, 10th Oxford Dysfluency Conference, ODC 2014, 17 - 20 July, 2014, Oxford, United kingdom (Conference Proceedings)
• Word-Final Disfluencies - Bibliography

Stuttering and Down Syndrome

• Dysfluency, Stuttering and Down Syndrome
• Stuttering and Down Syndrome Abstracts
• The Nature of Dysfluency in Down's Syndrome
• What Can We Do about Dysfluency, Stammering, Getting Stuck? from the Down's Syndrome Association Newsletter, Spring 2005
• Treating Down's Children Who Stutter by Judith Eckardt, paper written for ISAD online conference, 2008.
• Brochure: Down's Syndrome and Stuttering in html or PDF from The Stuttering Foundation.
• Speech Dysfluencies in People with Down Syndrome - Kurt Eggers, Chris De Bal, ASHA Convention PPT - 2006
• Example of mild stuttering in Down Syndrome - YouTube video of Tim who owns and operates his own restaurant in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
• Stuttering Treatment Can Improve Speech for Children with Down Syndrome from Speech Buddies
• Speech control in children with Down Syndrome by Howell, P. (2010) Speech control in children with Down syndrome. Down Syndrome Research and Practice, 12(2), 98-102. doi:10.3104/reviews.2095
• Stuttering treatment for a school-age child with Down syndrome: A descriptive case report Jessica Harasym and Marilyn Langevin, Journal of Fluency Disorders, Volume 37, Issue 4, December 2012, Pages 253-262 (article available on Science Direct)
• Is Stuttering Therapy Useful for Adolescents and Adults with Down Syndrome who are Dysfluent Monica Bray, Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 193, 30 June 2015, Pages 51-61 (article available on Science Direct)

Stuttering and ADHD

• ADHD and Stuttering: A Tutorial by E. Charles Healey and Robert Reid (article was published in the Journal of Fluency Disorders (2003), Vol. 28, pp. 79-93)