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Re: Effectiveness (%) of DAF in stuttering?

From: Nan Bernstein Ratner
Date: 16 Oct 2012
Time: 12:11:50 -0500
Remote Name: 129.2.25.203

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This one is rather easy to examine by going to a source such as PubMed and searching the published literature. While most studies show that a proportion of people reduce stuttering under altered auditory feedback, in a lab situation, and typically only involving reading aloud, the few more ambitious studies that have tracked usage of such devices out in "the real world" have found very poor rates of continued improvement over time and across the more typical types of speaking situations we engage in. There are definitely a few individuals (if I average across some studies I have seen, I'd estimate maybe only 1/5 or even fewer) who really do profit from using such devices, but they do not appear to be the majority of individuals who have tried the devices for everyday use. And we have no data on use by children at all.


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