On two tests of phonetic manipulation 25 male stutterers were found to be inferior to matched controls. Results are reported to be consistent with previous findings of author and to interrelate with earlier research suggesting that some inadequacy in sound-making skills is an important aspect of stuttering. (Author/KW)

Twenty adult male nonstutterers became more fluent when pacing their speech with a metronome. The degree to which they became more fluent was within the range which has been reported for stutterers. This finding suggests that the effect of the metronome on stuttering is not primarily a result of distraction. (Author/KW)

Author suggests ways to help the stutterer adjust to everyday life. (GB)

Relationship of frequency with which vocalization must be initiated in a given speech segment and frequency of attendant disfluency was investigated by comparing stutterers' readings of passages composed intirely of voiced speech sounds or containing both voiceless and voiced sounds, the latter requiring more off-on phonatory adjustments.…

Describes various methods that the teacher can employ to help the child who stutters. (DR)

The word finding skills of a group of 20 stuttering children (5 to 12 years of age) were compared with those of a control group of 20 normally speaking children matched for age and socioeconomic status. The Northwestern Word Latency Test was administered in which each child was shown 46 pictures of common objects. Any picture not named readily on…