Describes an apparatus which combines auditory masking, metronomic pacing, and uninterrupted masking in a single unit to aid the stammerer. (MB)

Consideration of directions for future research in stuttering. (CH)

Five studies were reported in which the magnitude of the influence of word length upon the loci of instances of disfluency in the oral reading of 132 stutterers and 141 nonstutterers was investigated. (Author/DB)

It was found that five Ss showed the usual higher rate of stuttering on consonants, while one showed more stuttering on vowels; and that a markedly higher rate was found on initial words of sentences in two Ss, both of whom were also exceptional in several other aspects of stuttering. (Author/DLS)

Reported are five studies on the use of delayed auditory feedback (DAF) with stutterers. The first study indicates that sex differences and age differences in temporal reaction were found when subjects (5-, 7-, 9-, 11-, and 13-years-old) recited a nursery rhyme under DAF and NAF (normal auditory feedback) conditions. The second study is reported…

The bibliography, which is one of a series of over 50 similar selected bibliographies dealing with handicapped and gifted children, contains 100 references selected from Exceptional Child Education Abstracts pertaining to research with speech handicapped children. Bibliographic data, availability information, indexing and retrieval terms, and…

The study reported an evaluation procedure where listeners endeavored to distinguish between intermingled speech samples obtained from nine treated stutterers and a peer group of nine normally fluent speakers (13 to 24 years old). (Author/SBH)

There was a significant decrease in the difference between observed and expected probabilities over the first 30 words following a stutter. Also, the two adult Ss initially increased their stuttering rate. Findings supported a combination of the anxiety and feedback models of A. W. Still and C. A. Sherrard. (Author/DLS)

A RATIONALE FOR SPEECH AND HEARING PROGRAM RECORD KEEPING AND REPORTING IS PRESENTED ALONG WITH A COMPREHENSIVE SET OF FORMS. FORMS ARE AVAILABLE TO COVER ALL SITUATIONS IN DIAGNOSIS AND PROGRESS, COMMUNICATION TO OTHER PROFESSIONAL PEOPLE, AND COMMUNICATION WITH PARENTS. (MK)

Examines the potential usefulness of various procedures employed to measure the adaptation in frequency rate of fluency failure, adaptation in temporal rate of speech, and automated analysis of on-off speech patterns in differentiating stuttering from cluttering. (SCC)