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From: John Tetnowski, University of Louisiana-Lafayette
Date: 10/10/02
Time: 10:23:16 AM
Remote Name: 130.70.137.156
Bruce,
Interesting paper. I have always thought that there is indeed a link between therapies used in voice and stuttering. Additionally, I believe many of the same startegies apply to other "speech" disorders, namely "motor speech" disorders, i.e., dysarthria. For years, I have noted that some intervention startegies for motor speech disorders (e.g., those described in the classic Motor Speech textbook by Darley, Aronson, & Brown) are much like many of the fluency inducing strategies we use with PWS. Now, my two questions: 1) Do you also see the link between motor speech therapy and the fluency inducing techniques used in stuttering therapy? What does this say about "speech" therapy (in contrast to language therapy)? 2) Most of us agree that language influences speech. Do you see any appropriate studies from the voice literature (or other speech areas) that shows speech influencing language?
Great paper, thanks for contributing!
John Tetnowski