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From: Barbara Amster
Date: 13 Oct 2010
Time: 15:55:17 -0500
Remote Name: 139.84.48.251
Allison, it’s hard to tell without seeing your uncle but what we consider to be normal fluency varies from individual to individual. In my graduate class in fluency and stuttering, one of the activities that I do with the students is divide them into small groups and each student takes a turn being the “speaker.” The other students count the disfluencies of all kinds that the students’ make. It always amazes the students that most of them are quite disfluent. We usually do not pay attention to these disfluencies and are surprised when we are focused on them. I also have them count my disfluencies and I am a very disfluent speaker although I do not consider myself to be someone who stutters. Because your uncle does not seem to have any noticeable negative reactions to his speech, I probably would not consider him to be someone who stutters.