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From: Peter Reitzes
Date: 05 Oct 2010
Time: 11:19:37 -0500
Remote Name: 165.155.192.90
Hannah, thanks so much for writing. You bring up very interesting points and experiences. You ask, “Could feeling good and getting your point across be ‘fluency’?!” People are using the term “fluency” to mean various things these days – not stuttering or the absence of stuttering, prolonged speech, normal sounding speech, speech produced using “fluency” tools even though that speech may feel or sound struggled and labored, etc. So it seems very reasonable and insightful of you to suggest that some people may use the term “fluency” to describe how they feel regardless of the level of stuttered or non-stuttered speech they experience and display. The reason I wrote the paper is that it seems that the term “fluency” is being used to mean so many things that the only way to know what it means is to ask the person using it what he or she is trying to convey.