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From: Brian Humphrey
Date: 02 Oct 2006
Time: 16:39:42 -0500
Remote Name: 66.176.241.118
Susan, For a detailed discussion, you may be like to read a paper that I co-authored with John Van Borsel for the 2001 International Stuttering Awareness Day Online Conference. It is called “Word Final Dysfluencies: Ten Infrequently Asked Questions”. You can find it at: http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/isad4/papers/humphrey.html . Word-final dysfluencies are not common. They are generally not discussed in stuttering textbooks, but they can occur. They may be under-reported. We have not strictly considered word-final dysfluencies to be stuttering, but it is interesting that your son formerly stuttered. Is your son aware of his speech pattern? John Van Borsel has a bit of evidence suggesting that some children who are gently made aware may decrease their word-final dysfluencies.