THIS GUIDE PRESENTS SPECIFIC THERAPY IDEAS FOR SPEECH CLINICIANS TO USE WITH STUTTERERS. THE INTRODUCTION DISCUSSES PREVENTION OF STUTTERING, ORGANIZATION AND PLANNING OF THERAPY, SPEECH RULES, SPEECH EVALUATION, AND TERMINATION OF THERAPY. TWENTY-THREE THERAPY PLANS ARE DESCRIBED FOR EACH OF THREE LEVELS. LEVEL 1 IS FOR CHILDREN FROM KINDERGARTEN…

The authors review and evaluate studies on spontaneous recovery from stuttering in children and conclude that the frequently cited 80% spontaneous recovery figure is too high. They propose that speech-language pathologists abandon the concept of spontaneous recovery when devising clinical management procedures for the stuttering child. (Author/CL)

Reactions of 33 college students to audiotaped speech samples of simulated moderate speech disorder of stuttering, hypernasality, and lateral lisping, as well as normal speech were measured. The students reacted to the speech disorders with a tendency of increased social distance in addition to judgments of lower evaluation, lower…

Examines strategies that stutterers use to manage interactional order and identify by concealing, revealing, or disavowing stuttering. Discusses findings in relation to the way people manage disabilities in general. (GC)

Research is reviewed on children's fluency disruptions (including definitions, nature and types of self-interruptions, and typical and atypical discourse development). A collaborative approach to classroom intervention is proposed which focuses on the dynamics of the classroom environment and interaction patterns. (CL)

The hypothesis that a person stutters because he believes in the difficulty of speech, anticipates failure, and struggles to avoid it, is said to be consistent with experimental findings on the metronome effect, the adaptation effect, the effects of white noise and delayed auditory feedback, and operant control of stuttering. (Author/GW)

The experiment investigated the speech performance of 23 adult stutterers both in social isolation and while an investigator was with them. (CB)

Occurrence of residual stutterings on adjacent words caused by blotting out words at random in a reading passage was studied. (KW)

Stutterers were found to have a significantly greater number of pauses 150 to 250 msec long than nonstutterers, indicating that even the fluent speech of stutterers differs from normal speech. (Author/KW)

Response cost (punishment) decreased stuttering below the baserate frequency for three adult male stutterers, but when reintroduced after pairing with reinforcement, one subject's rate of stuttering did not immediately decrease, suggesting that punishment for stuttering may acquire discriminative attributes after systematic pairing with a…