By the Numbers: Disfluency Analysis for Preschool Children who Stutter

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SLD's multiple counting

From: dieter.rommel@uniklinik-ulm.de
Date: 04 Oct 2010
Time: 04:10:45 -0500
Remote Name: 134.60.112.134

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Dear Dr. Sawyer some questions to your paper presented at isad conference 2010 For me it is urgent to to clear up some other aspects of SLD’s indroduced by Yairi. In your publications it is not clear how to do multiple counting of SLD’s (to allow more than one stuttering symptom in one phone/syllable or word). When I remember correct also Yairi has not introduced this in his first publications and empirical results of his longitudinal study. And again here this problem is absent. Discrepancies in this counting procedures of course led to different stuttering levels. It would be very nice to have additional information with this problem, otherwise there is the danger to define again (as has be done the last 30 years) very high disfluency levels and implement different assessment procedures of childhood stuttering (by one accepted authority). Another assessment procedure forced by Yairi is some weighted measurement, which is also not presented in your presentation. In this connection it would be interesting to get for the first time reliability data (if possible point by point) for multiple counting of the SLD's. Yairi et al. do this multiple counting in his later presentations but never present some reliability data (all known publications). Especially the reliable assessment of multiple counts of stuttering symptoms must be very difficult. With regard Dieter Rommel, University of Ulm dieter.rommel@uniklinik-ulm.de


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