Issues of Speech Naturalness in Stuttering

Issues of Speech Naturalness in Stuttering

Issues of Speech Naturalness in Stuttering: In recent years, clinical scientists have been concerned that treatments that produce fluency may not always result in natural-sounding speech. As Schiavetti and Metz (1997) warned, “Some stutterers may reduce their number...
Changing Scenario in Management of Stuttering

Changing Scenario in Management of Stuttering

Changing Scenario in Management of Stuttering: Procedures to Create an Environment that Facilitates Fluency Preschool-age children, especially those on the borderline between normal disfluency and stuttering, may need only a little change in their environments for...
Relapse and Recovery from Fluency Disorders

Relapse and Recovery from Fluency Disorders

Relapse and Recovery from Fluency Disorders: Relapse means a falling back into a former state, especially after apparent improvement. Relapse is not well defined in stuttering (Craig, 1998). Stuttering is a chronic disorder and many adults can only remain fluent by...
Approaches to Management of Fluency Disorders

Approaches to Management of Fluency Disorders

Approaches to Management of Fluency Disorders: The management of fluency disorders involves three stages. Establishment of Fluency Generalization of Fluency Maintenance of Fluency Establishment of Fluency Establishment of fluency is easy and can be achieved using a...