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From: Florence Myers
Date: 01 May 2010
Time: 06:37:45 -0500
Remote Name: 68.195.168.7
In similar vein, I view cluttering as a "systemmic" phenonmenon, whereby the various parts of the speech and language system can "play off of each other." In the now out-of-print book edited by Myers and St. Louis (1992) available for free on the ICA website, I advocated the notion that the different strands of speech and language can function in a nonsynergistic and/or nonsynchronous fashion, resulting in the multiple symptoms we see in cluttering. Based on what PWC tell us, one strong hypothesis is that their propopensity toward doing and thinking multiple things quickly--but at times in a disorganized fashion---may be due to a) difficulties in neurologically or temperamentally inhibiting or "soft-pedalling" these impulses; b) difficulties in organizing their speech and language functions; and c) difficulties in scanning forward as well as online self-monitoring of one's communicative output. At least clinically and theoretically, I feel it is helpful to address issues deeper than the surface structure (i.e.,the common denominator definition) of cluttering and look at the roots or underlying motivations propelling cluttering. The neurological studies are just beginning to study the roots of cluttering. Florence