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From: Kristen O'Loughlin
Date: 12 Oct 2009
Time: 11:45:02 -0500
Remote Name: 128.230.79.75
I found your article very interesting. I am graduate student in speech pathology and am currently working with a 45 year old male with a developmental stutter. He is very unaware of when he stutters. His usual disfluencies are whole-word and sound-syllable repetitions and he also uses many interjections. When I stop him during therapy and ask him if he heard any disfluencies most of the time he will not be able to identify them. We have recently started playing back the videos of his previous sessions so that he can identify his disfluent speech with the hopes that he becomes more aware of it. My supervisor suggested for the next session that I stop my digital recorder during spontaneous conversation and rewind it so that he can get delayed auditory feedback. I thought that the information in your article made sense of the issue my client has. He is not getting the necessary auditory feedback from his speech. Do you have any suggestions as to how I can help him before more aware of his stuttering so that he can decease his disfluencies?