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From: Nan
Date: 01 Oct 2009
Time: 16:27:55 -0500
Remote Name: 129.2.25.203
I am SURE Bob is gonna want to take a whack at this, but the OASES measures different stuff than the SSI; the former is more interested in cognitive and emotional features of living with stuttering than the SSI, which is almost exclusively a behavioral scale focused on the number and duration of stuttered events and the physical features that may accompany them. Aside from the fact that fMRI is unlikely to be a staple in most therapists' offices in my lifetime, seeing the brain doesn't say much about ANY of the behavioral, cognitive or emotional features of stuttering, so it is unlikely to be a critical outcome, although normalization of brain function following therapy can tell us a lot about what might be going on in stuttering and how it is changed by therapy. Personally, I think the trend will be to combine measurements of stuttering behaviors, affective and cognitive feaures, and speech naturalness before and after therapy. Older studies often just measured proportion of stuttered words or syllables, and I think we have gotten way beyond that in most practice and research settings. Or I hope we have.