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From: Tim Flynn
Date: 11 Oct 2007
Time: 11:01:28 -0500
Remote Name: 157.182.15.55
My name is Tim Flynn and I am a first year graduate student at West Virginia University. One of my teachers, Dr. St. Louis, gave me a copy of your questionnaire to fill out for an adult cluttering client of mine. I found the questionnaire very useful and wanted to ask you a few questions in relation to it. My client seems to have a larger problem on the actual pronunciation of words. It isn't so much that he condenses words and syllables, it is more that he doesn't know how to sound them out. There seems to be no pattern with certain sounds, such as clusters versus singleton words. Where would this fall under on your questionnaire? It doesn't seem to be an articulation problem, it only happens when he is reading. Also, what would you recommend as a therapy technique? His rate of speech in the clinic is actually lower then the norm for oral speaking and reading. Granted, as a stutterer myself, I know that a clinic setting at times cannot be a realistic example of a person's fluency problems.