Evaluation of Post Treatment Fluency by Naive Subjects

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The use of teaching prolongation as a means to fluency has increased markedly since Goldiamond (1965) discovered that stutterers could be fluent under delayed auditory feedback. However, it has been questioned whether post-treatment fluency is perceived as normal by naive listeners. Wingate (1969, 1970) describes the fluent stutterer as having “altered his customed manner of speaking to produce artificial fluency”. Therefore, it is not only fluency, but also quality of speech which is the important consideration in stuttering therapy. This study was designed to determine whether treated stutterers are distinguishable as abnormal speakers in a normal population, 6 to 18 months after completion of a program based on the Ingham & Andrews (1973) techniques. Some attempt was made to indicate which parameters of speech are used to make the overall judgment.

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