Alicia Norman, Robyn Lowe, Mark Onslow, Sue O'Brian, Ann Packman, Ross Menzies, Liz Schroeder
PURPOSE: For those who stutter, verbal communication is typically compromised in social situations. This may attract negative responses from listeners and stigmatization by society. These have the potential to impair health-related quality of life across a range of domains, including qualitative and quantitative impacts on speech output, mental health issues, and failure to attain educational and occupational potential. These systematic reviews were designed to explore this matter using traditional health economics perspectives of utility measures and cost of illness...
September 26, 2023: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research: JSLHR