نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
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کلیدواژهها
عنوان مقاله [English]
The purpose of this study was to evaluate effectiveness of Demands and Capacities Model (DCM) on reducing the severity of preschool children’s stuttering. In a clinical cuasiexperimental design of single group with repeated measurements; 10 preschool stuttered children (5 girls and 5 boys) referred to two speech therapy clinics that were affiliated to Tehran Welfare Organization were selected and were affected by DCM within a period of 12 individual sessions and children’s stuttering severity was measured according to percentage of syllables stuttered(ss%) at three stages: pretest, mid test and posttest. Obtained data were analyzed according to analysis of variance with repeated measurements.The results of ANOVA with repeated measurements showed that DCM has created a statistically significant decrease in preschool children’s stuttering severity (p <0/01). Result of this study confirmed the effectiveness of DCM in reduction of preschool children’s stuttering severity.
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