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From: Julia Hollister
Date: 09 Oct 2011
Time: 21:36:02 -0500
Remote Name: 75.175.213.1
Thank you for such an interesting article and for raising the question regarding the applicability of our current general motor-learning framework to stuttering . I previously thought that with my young children, if the emphasis was on ‘perfect practice’, the more they did something (speak fluently) the easier it would be for them to do it again. Especially with young children, we often focus on facilitating an environment where perfect fluency can happen. I was interested in the studies you cited that indicate that people who stutter didn’t appear to benefit as much from practice. I am wondering if these implications can also be applied to environmental ‘perfect practice’ as well as to the conscious practice of fluency techniques. Is the practice of speaking fluently itself also not as effective at strengthening neuro-pathways as I had previously assumed?