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From: Klaas Bakker; Missouri State University; Springfield, MO
Date: 16 Oct 2007
Time: 16:30:29 -0500
Remote Name: 146.7.150.239
Dave, I commend you on your work and have been user of the previous version of your checklist, and will definitely continue to do so with the new version. I have one surprise though and that is that a relatively fast speech rate was not ranked highly by the international specialists that helped you in this project. This represents their opinion though and is not based on empirical speech rate determinations. Question 1: were the specialists clinicians who specialize in working with persons who clutter, or were there researchers/academicians among the specialists as well? Question 2: don't you think asking for opinions as basis for analyzing and verifying the unique differential diagnostic features of cluttering suffers in validity? Question 3: could you comment on the opinion of Dr. Florence Myers, who believes that speech rate may not be an issue in cluttering in an absolute sense, but rather in a relative sense (that is, a rate too rapid to be handled fluently by the speaker)? Thank you for your insights.