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From: Sandra Merlo
Date: 26 Oct 2008
Time: 19:16:15 -0600
Remote Name: 201.43.64.84
Dear Shannon, thank you for your question. People with covert stuttering can be considered as nonfluent speakers when the strategies that they use decrease stuttered disfluencies, but increase common disfluencies, increase reformulations, increase silent pauses and/or decrease speech rate in an excessive manner. I’m not saying that people with covert stuttering are always considered as nonfluent speakers, I’m saying they can be considered as nonfluent speakers when others components of fluency become very different from the expected. Best regards, Sandra