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From: Ardell Fitzgerald
Date: 16 Oct 2008
Time: 11:08:30 -0500
Remote Name: 209.189.130.12
I am evaluating a child who stutters (3-7)using prolongations,blinking,grimaces, turns head to the side, hides behind hands. His father also stutters. The child has non-developmental speech errors on w,m,n,p,b(baby is da-yee, nose is joze)and is about 30% intelligible. He is self-conscious and he cried when asked open ended questions by evaluator, saying "I can't say it!" He also cried when his blocks fell down which, according to parents, is common when things aren't exactly the way he wants it. Could his sound substitutions be influenced by sounds he thinks he's going to stutter on? He's been stuttering for a year and his stuttering has changed to prolongations. I'm wondering what the priority should be in treatment?