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Cluttering: Past, present and future
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ABSTRACTS
Investigations
of Speech Naturalness
K. St. Louis, Morgantown, Oral Presentation:
Ratings
West Virginia, USA
30 min.
Although ratings of speech naturalness have become widely used measures of normal prosody in stuttering clients, there is limited evidence regarding its relationship to other measures of prosody and its use with communication disorders other than stuttering. This paper will briefly review the literature relative to speech naturalness and present the results of two studies, one designed to explore the naturalness ratings given to a variety of speech disorders (St. Louis, 1992) and the other, comparin g naturalness ratings with other perceptual measures such as severity, rhythm, ease of listening, and regularity of rate. These studies showed (I) that speech naturalness is compromised in voice and articulation disorders as well as in stuttering, particularly in samples containing coexisting disorders, and (2) that the measure is correlated positively with other perceptual judgments of severity and prosody.
Cluttering:
Past, Present and Future
K. St. Louis and D. Daly, Morgantown, Oral Presentation:
West Virginia, USA
90 min.
The fluency
disorder of cluttering has recently been “rediscovered,” as evidence by a number of recent articles, chapters, and one recent book on the subject. This presentation focuses on a number of important theoretical and clinical issues which impact on clinical management of cluttering, notably coexisting disorders (i.e. stuttering, articulation, language, and learning disabilities), disorders of rate, and problems of awareness and self-monitoring. For each topic, the authors review pertinent literature, discuss selected diagnostic and therapeutic strategies currently in use, and suggest areas of clinical work and research which will lead to better understanding and treatment of cluttering in the future.
Speech Rate and Whole-Word Old Finnish Children U. Striim,
Repetitions
in the Speech of 3, 5, and 7 Year
Espoo, Finland
Poster Presentation
Young children speak nonfluently, slowly, and they repeat words. The speech rate is expected to rise and the number of repetitions is expected to decrease when children grow older. In order to be able to diagnose stutterers as early as possible, we need more knowledge of the development of speech fluency in normal children. Speech fluency consists of many aspects: speech rate and repetitions are two of them. The aim of this study is to describe these two aspects of fluency in the speech of normal Finnish children in three age groups. There were five girls and five boys in each group of three-year-olds, five-year-olds, and seven-year-olds. The children were selected from Helsinki day care centers according to their exact age (?I 3 weeks). They were asked to narrate a cartoon and also to narrate their own free play with given toys and their speech was audiotaped. An analysis was made of the speech rate (articulation and pauses,
ABSTRACTS
Investigations
of Speech Naturalness
K. St. Louis, Morgantown, Oral Presentation:
Ratings
West Virginia, USA
30 min.
Although ratings of speech naturalness have become widely used measures of normal prosody in stuttering clients, there is limited evidence regarding its relationship to other measures of prosody and its use with communication disorders other than stuttering. This paper will briefly review the literature relative to speech naturalness and present the results of two studies, one designed to explore the naturalness ratings given to a variety of speech disorders (St. Louis, 1992) and the other, comparin g naturalness ratings with other perceptual measures such as severity, rhythm, ease of listening, and regularity of rate. These studies showed (I) that speech naturalness is compromised in voice and articulation disorders as well as in stuttering, particularly in samples containing coexisting disorders, and (2) that the measure is correlated positively with other perceptual judgments of severity and prosody.
Cluttering:
Past, Present and Future
K. St. Louis and D. Daly, Morgantown, Oral Presentation:
West Virginia, USA
90 min.
The fluency
disorder of cluttering has recently been “rediscovered,” as evidence by a number of recent articles, chapters, and one recent book on the subject. This presentation focuses on a number of important theoretical and clinical issues which impact on clinical management of cluttering, notably coexisting disorders (i.e. stuttering, articulation, language, and learning disabilities), disorders of rate, and problems of awareness and self-monitoring. For each topic, the authors review pertinent literature, discuss selected diagnostic and therapeutic strategies currently in use, and suggest areas of clinical work and research which will lead to better understanding and treatment of cluttering in the future.
Speech Rate and Whole-Word Old Finnish Children U. Striim,
Repetitions
in the Speech of 3, 5, and 7 Year
Espoo, Finland
Poster Presentation
Young children speak nonfluently, slowly, and they repeat words. The speech rate is expected to rise and the number of repetitions is expected to decrease when children grow older. In order to be able to diagnose stutterers as early as possible, we need more knowledge of the development of speech fluency in normal children. Speech fluency consists of many aspects: speech rate and repetitions are two of them. The aim of this study is to describe these two aspects of fluency in the speech of normal Finnish children in three age groups. There were five girls and five boys in each group of three-year-olds, five-year-olds, and seven-year-olds. The children were selected from Helsinki day care centers according to their exact age (?I 3 weeks). They were asked to narrate a cartoon and also to narrate their own free play with given toys and their speech was audiotaped. An analysis was made of the speech rate (articulation and pauses,