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From: Steve Hood
Date: 10/1/02
Time: 9:40:02 PM
Remote Name: 152.163.188.225
Hi, John.. For starters, I agree with what Bob and Judy have thus far said. I hope barry Guitar will reply to your questin. As for me, I want to learn more about the program. I am especially interested in knowing the "speech characteristics" of the youngsters involved in the program, because from what I have been able to read (and read between the lines) I am not sure if they are actually 'normally nonfluent' or 'borderline'/just beginning to stutter, or actually stuttering 'mildly.' (I know this in and of itself is controversial, but I feel I need to mention it.) Are these kids showing enough frequency of disfluency, associaited beginning of effort, units of (re-)iteration with repetition, and "stutter-like disfluencies" and "short-element repetitions" of sounds and syllables, sound prolongatins, tense pauses/hard contacts. and possible also the repetition of single-syllable whole words) to be concerned with. I think that the "conditions at onset" issue is a particularly important one. And even when we read about this on the printed page, it is not the same as actually being there, in person, to watch and listen to what is going on. You have introduced an important issue, and I am sorry that I have not really done much to answer it. I need to learn more. Indeed, I think we all do.