Computer Aided Assessment of Cluttering Severity

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Re: Cluttering a topic only recently?

From: Klaas Bakker
Date: 05 Oct 2005
Time: 22:13:24 -0500
Remote Name: 12.214.28.114

Comments

Niklaus, I will answer your question myself first, and the co-authors to my paper may join in as they see needed. As a Dutchman with a long history of being involved with speech language pathology in the United States and recently with cluttering in specific, I agree with your observation that there has been limited attentiond for cluttering in previous years. Cluttering has not been recognized to the same the degree in the United States as in most of Europe. This is, however, changing. Cluttering is now beginning to become a required subject in any maintstream text on fluency disorders. There also has been a range of events that have contributed to a growing interest in this unique condition. While recognized in Europe for many years, cluttering did not produce a large amount of controlled empirical clinical research on the topic. The tradition was mostly vested in expert opinion but that seems to be the start of any new development toward new knowledge. From my point of view today, cluttering is a hot topic and is more urgently than ever needing research to refine our understanding of its essence, its unique and associated clinical signs, ways to assess clinical aspects, and effective intervention methods. While there is a long way to go, cluttering is an exciting area for researchers.


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