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From: john kagie
Date: 19 Oct 2005
Time: 12:54:28 -0500
Remote Name: 217.169.227.200
Tom: That is a very interesting point of view and it must be true for a subgroup of PWS. I have some observations that suggest another explanation and I would like to hear your view. Some PWS are more fluent when they focus on the message and do not formulate in advance. It could be explained that in that way they avoid the anticipatory stress of difficult words showing up at the horizon. In some other posts, I asked about the primary/ secondary concept. Could it be that for people with mainly primary symptoms avoiding the automatic mode gives an improvement, where on the other hand for people with mainly secondary symptoms focussing on the message, so using that automatic mode results in an improvement? A research done by Dr. Frank Wijnen (University Utrecht, Netherlands) would support this view. He looked into the relation between the speech monitor function and stuttering, and concluded that PWS have developed a too critical monitor function. They interpret normal non-fluencies as the beginning of a stutter, stop, start again, stop etc. Distracting the attention from the speech to the message would diminish the influence of the monitor, and the result would be more fluency. Just an idea. :)