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.
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.
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
2019 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 |