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From: Jean Sawyer
Date: 06 Oct 2010
Time: 08:22:11 -0500
Remote Name: 138.87.142.126
Mr. Weidig, As I pointed out in the article, disfluencies should be counted for preschool children near the onset of stuttering, as studies have shown that a decrease in the frequency of stuttering-like disfluencies over time is a prognostic indicator of stuttering. With practice, it can no longer than listening to a speech sample twice; once for syllable counts and once for disfluencies. Of course, if the child is very disfluent, that second listen involves re-listening to disfluencies. Jean