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From: Anthony J Caruso
Date: 10/9/00
Time: 2:17:38 PM
Remote Name: 204.210.200.57
Hi Judy. Thanks for you kind words re: our involvement with this technology. We have indeed used some of our programs with clients, in fact, to date they have been used with only clients who are teenagers. (It just turned out that way...we'd like to also use them with older individuals). The opportunites we have had were clincial and not experimental, so I don't have data from a conrolled study. But, the clients reported that the opportunity to work on specific techniques, at home, interacting with the computer was very helpful. Our 'speech rate' software has been found to be effective with clients and student clincians. We are, as you know, developing patient simulation software and it is progressing but that work is so tedious. Re: virtual reality, I think that is exciting but for us a little premature. We want to continue to develop patient simulation for teaching and traing purposes first and then maybe move from there. Finally, we have identified areas of use with parents of children who stutter and we hope to begin developing software for parents soon. I hope I answered all of your questions, but if I didn't, just let me know... Tony