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From: Lisa LaSalle
Date: 21 Oct 2009
Time: 20:48:13 -0500
Remote Name: 69.222.77.73
Kay, Yea! I’m so glad you appreciated my presentation, esp. since I got to observe and learn from a case of yours - a high school student who cluttered and had some articulation concerns. Our conversations about her added to my experience with cluttering. (Alicia was your student clinician when you worked with her, as you may recall). You raise at least two important questions: (1) Am I “quoting the 10% criteria from Adams'work around 1980-is this the source for my data?” Yup – it is. High time we revisit that in our field, is maybe your implication and if it is, I agree :~) I think that in certain speaking situations, 10 per 100 final/”un-mazed” words (which Adams [1980] did not necessarily confirm) is not unusual /abnormal or cluttering-like, esp. when low in stutter types, and yet then in other speaking situations, 10 disfluencies of any type /100 words is too much! Listener tolerance is a nuisance variable in most judgments of “abnormally disfluent.” And (2) (well-framed Q, Kay): In the spirit of International Stuttering Awareness Day (10-22-09), what do the rest of you think – with better knowledge about Dx and Tx, and with better advocacy about clulttering, can we help stop the progression of cluttering with early intervention (as we do with stuttering)?