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From: Jean Sawyer
Date: 18 Oct 2010
Time: 14:18:57 -0500
Remote Name: 138.87.138.174
Hi Stacie, Thank you for your question. I have just published an article about disfluency clusters in the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. Disfluency clusters are an integral part of the speech of preschool children who stutter. Children who stutter have significantly more and longer clusters than normally fluent children, and clusters of more than 1 per 100 words may be an indicator of stuttering. My results relied on disfluency analysis. I'm glad you have found disfluency analysis helpful in your work with preschool children who stutter. I can't see how disfluency analysis would be helpful with secondary behaviors of the non-speech variety, but if a person who stutters is using phrase repetitions or interjections as an avoidance mechanism, they definitely could. Jean