Cure for Stammering

Facilities to assist people to research into stammered speech.

The purpose of this article is to indicate how access can be obtained, through Stammering Research, to audio recordings and transcriptions of spontaneous speech data from speakers who stammer. Selections of the first author's data are available in several formats. We describe where to obtain free software for manipulation and analysis of the data in their respective formats. Papers reporting an...

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...

Participant Modelling: an Effective Treatment Strategy for Stammering

Six cases of stammering, free from gross organic and psychological abnormality were taken up for treatment by participant modelling. All the cases showed substantial improvement with this treatment model ty.

Treatment of Stammering

Communicating in the real world: accounts from people who stammer.

UNLABELLED This qualitative study used in-depth interviews to explore the communicative experiences and coping strategies of 14 adults who stammer. Their accounts revealed that those participants with persistent developmental dysfluency felt that stammering had limited their lives especially in the areas of employment, education and self-esteem. All participants shared key styles of communicati...