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Re: Cluttering and Stuttering

From: Lisa LaSalle
Date: 21 Oct 2011
Time: 10:27:20 -0500
Remote Name: 206.208.133.42

Comments

Hi Justin, You asked "are there cases in which a recovered mild clutterer developed a mild stutter?" Chiming in with my colleagues, I can't think of a case where this this happened either. It is true however that monitoring is a key feature that needs to be improved in most individuals who clutter in order to improve their fluency. It would be important to think of what you mean by "mild stutter." If you are referring to only the surface behavior and the person reports that they experience control of the sound or syllable or word production, then yes, all speakers have these within-word disfluencies from time to time (0-2 on average per 100 words). Don't know if that helps what you're getting at but I really think it's helpful to bring back into our profession Bill Perkins' comment in 1990 that one important aspect of the definition of stuttering is "loss of control."


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