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Re: Thank you guys!

From: Scott
Date: 02 Oct 2012
Time: 10:35:26 -0500
Remote Name: 150.212.113.243

Comments

I'll pile on here, too, and say that just the variability of stuttering itself renders a surface measure meaningless as an eligibility / dismissal criterion. If a person's overt frequency of stuttering can vary, then what's to say that the frequency count (or SSI) taken at a given point of time has any relevance at all to their frequency count at a different point in time. Put simply, I think that surface measures are too volatile to be used as indicators of much of anything, other than a snapshot of what the person is experiencing at that particular instant in time. (And, this doesn't even account for the vast literature on how unreliable people are at making those measures.) Clearly, we need something more stable AND more reflective of what is real for the individual -- and more reflective of what the moment of stuttering truly feels like for the speaker. End of pile-on. ;-) S


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