By the Numbers: Disfluency Analysis for Preschool Children who Stutter

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Re: Why the hell do you count dysfluencies?

From: Tom Weidig (thestutteringbrain.blogspot.com)
Date: 06 Oct 2010
Time: 09:52:23 -0500
Remote Name: 88.207.201.109

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Thanks for your reply. But isn't it obvious that a child who is stuttering less and less will recover? I still don't understand why you would measure this. As an experienced clinician, will you not notice when the child becomes more fluent without counting? Regarding prognosis, it is a well known standard that a predictor must pass a reality check , i.e. can you actually predict recovery, rather than analysing past data and claim a predictor by correlation. Has anyone ever done this?

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