A Preliminary Survey of Vocal Tract Characteristics During Stuttering: Implications for Therapy

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delayed motor activity

From: Barbara Dahm CCC-SLP;BRS-FD
Date: 11 Oct 2012
Time: 04:05:36 -0500
Remote Name: 109.186.67.151

Comments

Anelise, I thank you for this interesting research. It was very helpful to actually see the laryngeal activity of people when stuttering. You mentioned that there appears to be a delay in converting an abstract thought into a concrete motor activity. This is an interesting aspect of stuttering. It might seem that this a problem of the brain or the larynx, but that hypotheses is problematic, considering that this does not happen when singing. An alternative thought is that the delay my come because the speaker is attending to a different motor activity such as forming the words with the articulators. I would love to see a study that gives more understanding of how the articulators and laryngeal activity interact. Has such a study been done? Have you delved into that at all?


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