Participant Modelling: an Effective Treatment Strategy for Stammering

Fear of speaking: chronic anxiety and stammering

Stammering results in involuntary disruption of a person’s capacity to speak. It begins at an early age and can persist for life for at least 20% of those stammering at 2 years old. Although the aetiological role of anxiety in stammering has not been determined, evidence is emerging that suggests people who stammer are more chronically and socially anxious than those who do not. This is not sur...

Treatment of Stammering

Lung protection strategy as an effective treatment in acute respiratory distress syndrome

Lung protection strategy as an effective treatment in acute respiratory distress syndrome

Effectiveness of frequency shifted feedback at reducing disfluency for linguistically easy, and difficult, sections of speech (original audio recordings included).

Frequency shifted feedback (FSF) induces fluency when presented to speakers who stutter. This study examined whether FSF was more effective at removing disfluencies on easy or on difficult stretches of speech (where difficulty was defined with respect to utterance and word length). There were more disfluencies on the difficult stretches than on the easy stretches. There were significantly fewer...

Stammering and Its Treatment