FLUENCY BANK
FluencyBank is a shared database for the study of the development of fluency in both typical and disordered populations. Participants include typically-developing monolingual and bilingual children, children and adults who stutter (C/AWS) or who clutter (C/AWC), and second language learners.
Grants to support the lab's work in stuttering and fluency come from:
- NIDCD: 1 R01 DC015494-01 (Brian MacWhinney, co-PI). A shared database for the study of the development of language fluency. 2016-2021
- NSF BCS-1626300/1626294: The development of language fluency across childhood. N. Bernstein Ratner (PI) & B. MacWhinney, Co-I (Collaborative Research). 2016-2019
- NIDCD R01DC307764-0000 (PI: Brian MacWhhinney, N. Bernstein Ratner, co-PI) Phon Bank Integration with TalkBank (2022-2027)
- First CASE grant, National Stuttering Association. Validating recommendations made to the parents of children who stutter. (PI: N. Bernstein Ratner. 2022-24).
Ongoing Projects |
Fluency development project
This project examines the relationship between the fluency of children's speech and their language skills.
We are following 90 children (typical monolingual, bilingual, stuttering and late talking) over the course of three years to track language and fluency growth. Data will be added to our open-access archive of language samples and supporting documentation (TalkBank/CHILDES Project).
This research is being conducted by Dr. Nan Bernstein Ratner at the University of Maryland, College Park and Dr. Brian MacWhinney at Carnegie-Mellon University.
If you are interested in participating, please click here.
This project examines the relationship between the fluency of children's speech and their language skills.
We are following 90 children (typical monolingual, bilingual, stuttering and late talking) over the course of three years to track language and fluency growth. Data will be added to our open-access archive of language samples and supporting documentation (TalkBank/CHILDES Project).
This research is being conducted by Dr. Nan Bernstein Ratner at the University of Maryland, College Park and Dr. Brian MacWhinney at Carnegie-Mellon University.
If you are interested in participating, please click here.
Publications
MacWhinney, B. (2019). Understanding spoken language through TalkBank. Behavior research methods, 51(4), 1919-1927.
doi.org/10.3758/s13428-018-1174-9
Bernstein Ratner, N. (2018). Selecting treatments and monitoring outcomes: The circle of evidence-based practice and client-centered care in treating a preschool child who stutters. Language, speech, and hearing services in schools, 49(1), 13-22. doi.org/10.1044/2017_LSHSS-17-0015
Bernstein, N. R., & MacWhinney, B. (2018). Fluency Bank: A new resource for fluency research and practice. Journal of fluency disorders, 56, 69-80. doi:10.1016/j.jfludis.2018.03.002
MacWhinney, B., Fromm, D., Rose, Y., & Bernstein Ratner, N. (2018). Fostering human rights through TalkBank. International journal of speech-language pathology, 20(1), 115-119. doi:10.1080/17549507.2018.1392609
Leech, K. A., Bernstein Ratner, N., Brown, B., & Weber, C. M. (2017). Preliminary evidence that growth in productive language differentiates childhood stuttering persistence and recovery. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 60(11), 3097-3109. doi.org/10.1044/2017_JSLHR-S-16-0371
Luckman, C. R. (2017). A large-scale analysis of lexical diversity in children who stutter (Master's Thesis). University of Maryland, College Park, MD. drum.lib.umd.edu/handle/1903/19950
Brundage, S. B., Bernstein Ratner, N., et al. (2021). Consensus guidelines for the assessment of Individuals who Stutter across the lifespan. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. 30(6):2379-2393. doi: 10.1044/2021_AJSLP-21-00107. PMID: 34516299; PMCID: PMC9132036.
Lescht, E., Dickey, M., Stockbridge, M. & Bernstein Ratner, N. (2022). Adults who stutter show diminished word fluency, regardless of mode. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 65(3), 906-922. doi: 10.1044/2021_JSLHR-21-00344. PMID: 35133869; PMCID: PMC9150734.
Brundage, S. B. & Bernstein Ratner, N. (2022). Research updates in stuttering. Topics in Language Disorders, 42(1), 5-23. DOI: 10.1097/TLD.0000000000000269; PMID: 35321534 PMCID: PMC8936424.
Garbarino, J. & Bernstein Ratner, N. (2022). What is the role of questioning in young children's fluency? American Journal of Speech Language Pathology, 2061-2077. https://doi.org/10.1044/2022_AJSLP-21-00209 PMCID: PMC7225019
Garbarino, J., Exton, E. L., & Bernstein Ratner, N. (2022, July 1). A psycholinguistic analysis of word-final repetitions. PsyArXiv, https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/5hwfn
Chow, H.-M., Garnett, E., Bernstein Ratner, N. & Chang, S.-E. (2023). Brain activity during the preparation and production of spontaneous speech in children with
persistent stuttering. Neuroimage Clinical. doi: 10.1016/j.nicl.2023.103413. PMID: 37099876
Garbarino, J. & Bernstein Ratner, N. (2023) Stalling for time: Stall, revision and stuttering-like disfluencies reflect language factors in the speech of young children. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 66, 2018-2034. https://doi.org/10.1044/2023_JSLHR-22-00595; PMID: 37224005
Oppenheimer, K., Lee, J. Huang, Y.-T. & Bernstein Ratner (2023). Decontextualized utterances contain more typical and stuttering-like disfluencies in preschoolers who do and do not stutter. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 66(8), 2656-2669. https://doi.org/10.1044/2023_JSLHR-23-00173 PMID 37486762
Bernstein Ratner, N. & Brundage, S.B. (2023). Advances in understanding stuttering as a disorder of language encoding. Annual Review of Linguistics, 10, 6.1-6.17
https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-030521-044754
Onslow, M., Lowe, R., Jakšić, S. J., Bernstein Ratner, N., Chmela, K., Lim, V., & Sheedy, S. (2023). The Fifth Croatia Stuttering Symposium: Part I. Treatments for early stuttering. Journal of Fluency Disorders, 106022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfludis.2023.106022
Burns, M. & Bernstein Ratner, N. (2023). It’s just that simple: Parental language complexity in early childhood stuttering. In Wagovich, S. (Ed.) Proceedings of the World Congress on Stuttering and Cluttering.
https://web.archive.org/web/20231022192016/https://www.theifa.org/ifa-congresses-2/ifa-congress-proceedings/2022-jwc-proceedings.html
Godsey, A. & Bernstein Ratner, N. (2023). All in good time: A preliminary study of parent-child turn taking in early stuttering. In Wagovich, S. (Ed.) Proceedings of the World Congress on Stuttering and Cluttering.
https://web.archive.org/web/20231022192016/https://www.theifa.org/ifa-congresses-2/ifa-congress-proceedings/2022-jwc-proceedings.html;
Godsey, A. & Nan Bernstein Ratner (2024). All in good time: Parent-Child turn-taking in early stuttering. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. 34(1), 333-346. https://doi-org.proxy-um.researchport.umd.edu/10.1044/2024_AJSLP-24-00155
Bernstein Ratner, N. & S. B. Brundage (2025). Evidence-based practice in stuttering 20 years later: some questions to consider. Journal of Fluency Disorders.
ASHA Posters
| I’m not convinced: SLPs need logic-based analysis to assess persuasive writing of individuals with autism |
| Hard to keep your heritage: Language attrition in Spanish-English bilingual preschoolers over a single year |
| Investigating the effect of parental question input on children with ASD enrolled in PLAY Intervention |
| Factors influencing child language growth in a DIR/Floortime intervention for preschoolers with autism |
| overton_perry_builes_lee_asha_poster_2019_how_long_nbr_first_page_only.pptx |
| Stranger things: Parents and strangers demonstrate different fine-tuning in CwLLE |