Audibility Avoidance in Nonvocalized Stutterers

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Twenty-two stutterers, 8 stuttering vocally and 14 nonvocally, were compared on 2 180-word passages, including all sound combinations in roughly equal frequency, 1st with instruction to read as well as possible, and 2d so that subjects could, if they wished, block out the examiner''s listening to the sound by the subject feeding him white noise. Each subject was questioned after his performances as to how he felt he had performed. A record of actual stuttering performance was obtained by a concealed tape recorder. The 2 experimental groups were then reversed and 4 additional stutterers were studied for adaptation, order of words, or other interactions in the sample. Individuals with non-vocal stuttering are characterized by stronger drives to avoid audibility of stuttering.

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