On the Concept of Fluency

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Fluency

From: Kristen LoBraico CW Post SLP Graduate Student
Date: 17 Oct 2008
Time: 21:28:39 -0500
Remote Name: 24.186.130.196

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Dear Sandra Merlo, I want to thank you for such an insightful and descriptive article. I am a currently enrolled in a stuttering class, although I have yet to observe a therapy session in which stuttering was the diagnosis. I feel your article raised very interesting points. Considering "fluency is also a kind of skill, but one of very specific domain" do you think it is possible that PWS and who cope with the disfluency of their speech by using "speech techniques" such as; the voluntary use of common disfluencies, covert stuttering, decrease in speech rate, increase in fluency and duration of silent pauses; have mastered skills other than fluency, but instead skills to manage their own stuttering? In therapy what approach towards fluency do you prefer for a stuttering patient? What techniques are used for the different severities of stuttering? When focusing on frequency of disfluencies, pauses, and speech rate, are there certain methods a SLP could follow to achieve this in a stutterer? Regardless of stuttering/disfluency severity? Thank you for your time, Kristen LoBraico


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