Speech Fluency Lab, SLHS, University of Minnesota

Publications

Lei, X., Nguyen-Feng, V. N., & Sasisekaran, J. (In press). Stuttering severity and social anxiety among adults who stutter: A multilevel analysis. Journal of Fluency Disorders.Lei, X., Sasisekaran, J., & Nguyen-Feng, V. N. (2024). The experience of stuttering in everyday life among adults who stutter: The impact of trait social anxiety and the social situations. Journal of fluency disorders, 80, 106061.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfludis.2024.106061 Sasisekaran, J., & Basu, S. (2023). Language sample analysis of conversation samples from school-age children who stutter: The role of syntactic factors in stuttering. Journal of Communication Disorders. Sasisekaran, J., Lei, X. (2023). Task effects on language productivity, syntactic complexity, and stuttering in school-age children who stutter. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 13, 1-21.
Lei X., Sasisekaran, J., & Nguyen Feng, V. (2022). Variability of stuttering severity and emotion in daily life: An ecological momentary assessment (EMA). Extended abstract published in the Proceedings of the Joint World Congress on Stuttering and Cluttering. Montreal, Canada.
Sasisekaran, J., & Basu S. (2021) Rhyming abilities in a dual-task in school-age children who stutter. J Fluency Disord., 69, 105864. doi: 10.1016/j.jfludis.2021.105864.
Sasisekaran J., Chow, R., Burton, P., & Alain, C. (2021). Investigating the neural correlates of phonological encoding using a cluster-based analysis approach. NeuroReport, 32(5), 373.
Sasisekaran J., & Lei, X. (2020). Developmental differences in the availability of cognitive resources supporting rhyming and dual tasking. Journal of Speech, Language, Hearing Research.
Sasisekaran, J., Basu, S., & Weathers, E. (2019) Movement kinematics and speech accuracy in a nonword repetition task in school-age children who stutter. Journal of Communication Disorders, 81, 105916.
Sasisekaran, J., & Weathers, E. (2019) Disfluencies and phonological revisions in a nonword repetition task in school-age children who stutter. Journal of Communication Disorders, 81, 105917.
Basu, S., Shlauch, R. S., Sasisekaran J. (2018). Backward masking of tones and speech in persons who do and do not stutter. Journal of Fluency Disorders, 57, 11-21.
Sasisekaran, J. & Basu, S. (2017). The influence of executive functions on phonemic processes in children who do and do not stutter. Journal of Speech, Language, Hearing Research, 60, 2792-2807.
Sasisekaran, J., & Donohue, C. (2016). Effects of concurrent task demands on language planning in fluent children and adults. Applied Psycholinguistics, 37, 1311–1366
Sasisekaran, J. & Weisberg, S. (2014). Practice and retention of nonwords in adults who stutter.Journal of Fluency Disorders, 41, 55-71.
Sasisekaran J. (2013). Exploring the link between stuttering and phonology: A review and implications for treatment. Seminars in Speech and Hearing, 35(2), 95-113.
Sasisekaran, J., & Byrd, C. T. (2013). Nonword repetition and phoneme elision skills in school-age children who do and do not stutter.International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 48(6):625-39.
Sasisekaran, J. (2013). Nonword repetition and nonword reading skills in adults who do and do not stutter. Journal of Fluency Disorders, 38(3), 275-289.
Sasisekaran, J., & Byrd, C. T. (2013). A preliminary investigation of segmentation and rime abilities of children who stutter. Journal of Fluency Disorders, 38, 222-234.

Sasisekaran, J., Brady, A., & Stein, J. (2013). A preliminary investigation of phonological encoding skills in children who stutter. Journal of Fluency Disorders, 38(1), 45-58.
Sasisekaran, J. & Weisberg, S. (2013). Effects of cognitive – linguistic variables and language experience on behavioral and kinematic measures of nonword learning in young adults. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 42(2), 175-190.
Sasisekaran, J. (2012). Effects of delayed auditory feedback on speech kinematics in fluent speakers.Perceptual and Motor Skills, 115(3), 845-64.
Sasisekaran, J. & Munson, B. (2012). Effects of repeated production on vowel distinctiveness within nonwords. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 131(4), EL336-EL341.
Smith, A., Goffman, L., Sasisekaran, J., & Weber-Fox, C. (2012). Language and Motor Abilities of Preschool Children Who Stutter: Evidence from Behavioral and Kinematic Indices of Nonword Repetition Performance. Journal of Fluency Disorders, 37, 344–358.
Sasisekaran, J., & Weber-Fox, C. (2012). Cross-sectional study of phoneme and rhyme monitoring abilities in children between 7 and 13 years. Applied Psycholinguistics, 33, 253-279.
Sasisekaran, J., Smith, A., Sadagopan, N., & Weber-Fox, C. (2010). Nonword repetition in children and adults: Effects on movement coordination. Developmental Science, 13(3), 521-532.
Loucks, T.M.J., De Nil, L.F., & Sasisekaran, J. (2007). Jaw-phonatory coordination in chronic developmental stuttering. Journal of Communication Disorders, 40(30),257-272.
Sasisekaran, J., & De Nil, L. F. (2006). Phoneme monitoring in production and perception in adults who stutter. Journal of Fluency Disorders, 31(4), 284-302.
Sasisekaran, J., & De Nil, L. F., Smyth, H., R. & Johnson, J., C. (2006). An investigation of phonological encoding in the silent speech of persons who stutter. Journal of Fluency Disorders, 31(1), 1-21.
De Nil, L. F., Sasisekaran, J., Van Lieshout, P. H. H. M., & Sandor, P. (2005). Speech disfluencies in individuals with Tourette syndrome. Journal of Psychosomatic Research,58(1):97-102.
De Nil, L. F., Sasisekaran, J., & Smits-Bandstra, S. (2004). Recent insights into the nature of stuttering: A review and some speculations.Logopedie, 17, 26-38.
Recent Conference Proceedings
Lei X., Sasisekaran, J., & Nguyen Feng, V. (2022). Variability of stuttering severity and emotion in daily life: An ecological momentary assessment (EMA). Published in the Proceedings of the Joint World Congress on Stuttering and Cluttering. Montreal, Canada.

Munson, B., Anderson, T., & Sasisekaran, J. (2017). Phonological neighborhood density and intra-speaker variation in vowel production. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 142(4), 2580-2580. doi:10.1121/1.5014435

Google Sites

Report abuse