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From: Anelise J. Bohnen
Date: 05 Oct 2012
Time: 17:01:24 -0500
Remote Name: 187.107.57.39
Dear Peter Thank you so much for your remarks. Yes, I have seen both cases: vocal folds wide open struggling to close to initiate phonation or so closed together that even interfered with breathing. The external sign is a block. Not necessarily a block turning into repetitions or prolongations. I have also seen so much effort in trying to initiate phonation that, when the sound is finally produced, its intrinsic characteristic changes. This is particularly true when a block occurs in a voiced sound. The effort is so intense that the sound ends up produced as voiceless (pook instead of book). Studying the vocal tract allows me to improve fluency through therapeutic processes developed specially for one specific PWS. You know that there are different types of stuttering. I have also found PWS who have a "normal" vocal tract but present quite a few atypical movements occurring predominantly in the mouth region. So, let's continue to investigate. Kind regards to you too.