Too Much, Too Little, Just Right

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Too Much, Too Little, Just Right

From: Stephanie Shapiro
Date: 02 Oct 2008
Time: 21:23:43 -0500
Remote Name: 24.185.10.162

Comments

This article was very interesting, and very unique from others that I have read so far. Many articles focus on stuttering attitudes, and stuttering intervention and therapy, while this article emphasized the importance of speech rate in children who stutter. The analogies were very cute and clever and would be well-understood by young children. I think that children (even those without speech disorders) have a tendency to speak fast and ramble on. Therefore, it is important to display and stress appropriate speech rate, especially in children with disfluencies. I wish the article would have discussed reducing physical tension more, and ways that might be accomplished besides slowing down speech rate. In addition, I have seen many evaluations where parents admit to telling their children to “slow down” when they begin to stutter. This article discusses that speaking too slow is not good either. This fact would be very useful to parents of children who stutter. After all, as future SLP’s we all know how important carry-over is to success in therapy.


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