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From: Jean Sawyer
Date: 20 Oct 2010
Time: 10:16:39 -0500
Remote Name: 138.87.138.185
Hello Clarisse, Thank you for your question. For me, it is a relatively simple matter to identify the different types of disfluencies. You might look at Yairi & Ambrose's articles in the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (1992, 1999), or Yairi and Seery's new book, Stuttering: Foundations and Clinical Applications. While it is relatively straightforward to say that someone has a part-word repetition, to say whether it is stuttered or not is a different matter. There is a software training program of 5-second videotaped examples of stuttering called Stuttering Measurement Assessment and Training (SMAAT) produced by Roger Ingham and colleagues at the University of California at Santa Barbara. This tool is mentioned in the Einarsdottir & Ingham article in the references of my paper. Jean