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Abstract
The examination of speech-associated attitude is as important as other behavioral and physical factors in the assessment and treatment of stuttering (Conture, 2001). Accordingly, stuttering is best described as a multidimensional disorder in which speech-associated attitudes and emotional correlates are considered important beside speech-motor control disruptions; a view that has led speech-language pathologists (SLPs) to develop scales of speech-associated attitude for those whose fluency is problematic (Vanryckeghem and Brutten, 2007). The aim of this work was to construct an Arabic version of the Communication Attitude Test (CAT) (Brutten, 1985; Brutten and Dunham, 1989) in order to assess speech-associated negative attitude towards stuttering in school-aged Arabic-speaking Egyptian children who stutter. The Arabic communication attitude test (CAT-A) is made up of 35 statements to which the children were to respond by circling ‘true’ or ‘false’ relative to how they thought about their speech. The CAT-A was applied on 36 school-aged Arabic speaking Egyptian children in the age range 6-14 years including 18 CWNS (12 males and 6 females) and 18 CWS(13 males and 5 females). The Arabic communication attitude test (CAT-A) proved to be a valid and reliable tool for differentiating between stuttering and non-stuttering children regarding communication attitude and for assessing attitude towards stuttering in school-aged Arabic-speaking Egyptian children who stutter.