Social, emotional and mental health profiles of children who stammer

博士学位将需要对口吃儿童的社会，情感和行为健康进行实证研究。具体来说，这项研究将涉及设计和进行一项调查，以记录8至13岁有口吃史儿童的社会、情绪和心理健康状况。情绪调节，语言和认知功能的实验措施也将从一个较小的，更密集的抽样小组。 该项目的目的将是（1）建立社会，情感，和心理健康概况的一个大样本的儿童年龄在8-13岁的历史口吃和（2）通过将这些数据与现有的患有其他语言和交流障碍的儿童队列进行比较，（3）建立一个风险档案，以加强早期识别口吃儿童，这些儿童可能有更大的不良心理健康后果的风险。

The PhD will entail an empirical study of the social, emotional, and behavioural well-being of children who stammer. Specifically, the study will involve designing and conducting a survey to document social, emotional and mental health profiles of children aged between 8 and 13 years old with a history of stammering. Experimental measures of emotion regulation, language and cognitive function will also be obtained from a smaller, more intensively sampled sub-group. The purpose of the project will be (1) To establish the prevalence and developmental profiles of social, emotional, and mental health profiles of a large sample of children aged 8-13 years of age with a history of stammering and(2) To establish the specificity of these profiles to children who stammer by comparing these data to an existing cohort of children with other language and communication disorders and typically developing peers(3) To develop a profile of risk to enhance early identification of children who stammer who may be at increased risk of adverse mental health outcomes.