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，这项研究将包括设计和开展一项调查，记录8至13岁之间有口吃史的儿童的社会、情感和心理健康状况。情绪调节、语言和认知功能的实验测量也将从一个更小、更密集的抽样亚组中获得。该项目的目的将是：(1)建立社会、情感、(2)通过将这些数据与现有的有其他语言和沟通障碍的儿童和典型发育中的同龄人的队列数据进行比较，确定这些数据对口吃儿童的特异性(3)制定风险概况，以加强早期识别可能处于不良心理健康结果风险增加的口吃儿童。

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.