The Fluency Challenge (It's Not What You May Think)

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Re: Fluency..

From: Peter Reitzes
Date: 18 Oct 2010
Time: 07:08:22 -0500
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Vasu, thanks for writing. I think you are correct that some “fluency training” accepts or tolerates “clearly, monotonous robotic speech.” Your post has made me consider this. And it is only one example. A person who stutters enters therapy saying “I want to be fluent.” The person really means, “I want to talk normally and I don’t want to stutter.” The person is told, either explicitly or implicitly, that “fluency” (robotic, perhaps struggled speech) is obtainable. The expressed goal of “fluency” has now been switched from the absence of stuttering to robotic, perhaps struggled speech. Yet the word “fluency” has stayed consistent.


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