Affiliation:
1. Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
2. Goodwill Rehabilitation Center, Canton, Ohio
Abstract
This study evaluated how a decrease in reading rate would affect stuttering frequency. Eighteen stutterers read the same passage aloud in two conditions. Habitual reading rates and styles were required in the control condition. In the experimental condition, reading rates were significantly reduced by allowing subjects to see and read one word per second. When reading rates were manipulated in this way, significantly less stuttering occurred. Note was taken of the fact that, in the experimental condition, stutterers had to use a speech pattern that minimized the normal requirements of rapid coordination and transition across word boundaries. If stuttering is a phonetic transition defect, then the aforementioned pattern, which calls for less coordination and transition, should promote fluency. From this reasoning, it follows that the decrease in stuttering noted was as much dependent upon the manner of reading demanded of subjects as the reading rate forced upon them.
Publisher
American Speech Language Hearing Association
Cited by
46 articles.
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