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From: Tse-Hsuan Cheng
Date: 10/10/00
Time: 3:33:02 PM
Remote Name: 131.123.176.59
It seems that the expressive language ability do influence on the performance of fluency. But, how are the comprehenssive abilities working on fluency. Does it have the same influence on fluency as expressive or not? Do we have to view the expressive and comprehensive abilities together or separately? In my concept, children with both expressive and comprehensive problems are more like to have fluency problems because they cannot talk and process their thoughts at the same time. When they want to say something but the processing of thoughts hasn’t done yet, the disfluencies show up. If it is the thought formulation problem leads disfluencies. It is supposes to relate to the comprehension problems. If it is pure expressive problems, then it is supposed to relate to the motor programming, execution and the coordination. If those of my assumptions are correct, children with both compressive and expressive language problems will have more sever disfluencies than those who have only one of them. But I am not sure if it is true or not. And I am not sure if my concept form previous knowledge is correct or not. I just what to express my point of view on the interaction between language and stuttering.
But there is another question raise on my mind, what is the relationship between mental ability and stuttering. I had several mental retarded client with varies severity disfluencies in Taiwan. I didn’t’ work on the fluency problems because I think the main problem is the language. When their language ability improved, it seemed that their frequency of disfluencies decreased. But it was still changeable. Sometimes it was better and sometimes it became worse. Parents tend to be more concern about the fluency problems. I think that’s because if their mental retarded children can speak fluently, it will make them look more normal. Contrastly, if their retarded children speak disfluently, it will make them more retarded.