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Why do stutterers reject artificial speech? The message incompatibility conflict
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ABSTRACTS
of twelve patients and two therapists to meet four times for therapy sessions on five consecutive days. The intervals between sessions are six to eight weeks. It is followed by one weekend session six months later. The seminar includes a detailed discussion of the therapy program. The presentation of results of a survey of customer satisfaction will conclude the seminar.
Why Do Stutterers Conflict A. Starke,
Hamburg,
Reject Artificial
Speech? The Message Incompatibility
Germany
Oral Presentation: 30 min. It is a common experience in the treatment of stuttering that stutterers are very reluctant to use their newly learned stutter-free speech outside the clinical environment. This behavior tends to be evaluated as representing a special trait in the value system of the stutterer, hardly comprehensible by a normally speaking clinician, especially when this stutter-free speech sounds close to normal. However, the study of the pragmatics of human communication gives some credence to another possibility: The stutterer rejects artificial stutter-free speech because he fears communicative failure because of incompatibilities of the messages being sent at the content level and at the relational level.
The Electronic W. Starkweather,
Self-Help Group Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania,
USA
Poster Presentation This presentation will describe the development and metamorphosis of an electronic mail discussion list for academics and researchers into an electronic self-help group for people who stutter. The value of electronic mail, as a medium of communication for people who stutter, will be demonstrated. Excerpts from the discussion will be displayed.
Stuttering
Prevention
W. Starkweather
and S. Gottwald,
Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania,
USA
Oral Presentation: 90 min. This presentation will describe the rationale, concepts, procedures, and outcome of a program of stuttering prevention and early intervention for young children at risk for developing chronic stuttering. The program described is the one used at Temple University’s Stuttering Prevention Center. Beginning with a description of the Demands and Capacities Model, and its use to develop individual etiological accounts of stuttering in families, the presentation continues to describe procedures for assessing these children and their parents so as to determine specific variables that can be modified so as to produce fluent speech in a given child. From this assessment, an individualized program of prevention and treatment is described that stresses family therapy, group and individual parent counseling and training, and group and individual therapy for children. Results and follow-up procedures are also described.
ABSTRACTS
of twelve patients and two therapists to meet four times for therapy sessions on five consecutive days. The intervals between sessions are six to eight weeks. It is followed by one weekend session six months later. The seminar includes a detailed discussion of the therapy program. The presentation of results of a survey of customer satisfaction will conclude the seminar.
Why Do Stutterers Conflict A. Starke,
Hamburg,
Reject Artificial
Speech? The Message Incompatibility
Germany
Oral Presentation: 30 min. It is a common experience in the treatment of stuttering that stutterers are very reluctant to use their newly learned stutter-free speech outside the clinical environment. This behavior tends to be evaluated as representing a special trait in the value system of the stutterer, hardly comprehensible by a normally speaking clinician, especially when this stutter-free speech sounds close to normal. However, the study of the pragmatics of human communication gives some credence to another possibility: The stutterer rejects artificial stutter-free speech because he fears communicative failure because of incompatibilities of the messages being sent at the content level and at the relational level.
The Electronic W. Starkweather,
Self-Help Group Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania,
USA
Poster Presentation This presentation will describe the development and metamorphosis of an electronic mail discussion list for academics and researchers into an electronic self-help group for people who stutter. The value of electronic mail, as a medium of communication for people who stutter, will be demonstrated. Excerpts from the discussion will be displayed.
Stuttering
Prevention
W. Starkweather
and S. Gottwald,
Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania,
USA
Oral Presentation: 90 min. This presentation will describe the rationale, concepts, procedures, and outcome of a program of stuttering prevention and early intervention for young children at risk for developing chronic stuttering. The program described is the one used at Temple University’s Stuttering Prevention Center. Beginning with a description of the Demands and Capacities Model, and its use to develop individual etiological accounts of stuttering in families, the presentation continues to describe procedures for assessing these children and their parents so as to determine specific variables that can be modified so as to produce fluent speech in a given child. From this assessment, an individualized program of prevention and treatment is described that stresses family therapy, group and individual parent counseling and training, and group and individual therapy for children. Results and follow-up procedures are also described.