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From: Ed Feuer
Date: 08 Oct 2007
Time: 08:22:51 -0500
Remote Name: 207.161.44.212
Greg, Your response to my questions has indeed been instructive -- as has the silence of your colleagues. And take note, SLP students: clients with aphasia or swallowing disorders won’t ask such questions. As for distractor devices, I refer the professors to Charles Van Riper’s The Treatment of Stuttering on their bookshelves (or somewhere in storage as may be the case) and read or re-read his chapter on Suggestion, Distraction, and Persuasion Therapies. They will see that such devices, whether they're called the Amazing StutterMaster or whatever, have a long and sordid history. See what Van Riper has to say about the Derazne Correctophone, the Klein Auditory Masker, the "electronic ear," the Freed Stammercheck, Columbat's Muthonom, the Zond, Idehara's "Stuttering-curing Apparatus," Itard's "forks," and the Bates appliances. Talking in a foreign accent or in metronome speech (also distractors) is a lot cheaper and ultimately has the same temporary effect. edfeuer@mts.net