Work in pairs or small groups for this assignment.

First, each member of your group should work individually to review two short videos of two individuals who stutter and determine:

1. The individual's rate of speech in syllables/minute

2. The frequency of disfluency
   • in stuttered syllables/minute
   • in percent stuttered syllables

3. The types of disfluencies

4. The average duration of stuttered disfluencies

5. The overall severity of stuttering according to the SSI

There is a FREE online syllable counter available that you may find helpful, and a Speech Disfluency Count Sheet as well. Find these at the following URLs:
Syllable counter: http://www.natke-verlag.de/silbenzaehler/index_en.html
Count Sheet: https://judykuster.net/stut/exercise/docs/fluencycounts.pdf

Second, after a few days, each member of the group should again review the videos individually and complete the calculation of stuttering frequency again in order to assess intra-judge consistency.

Finally, group members should compare their individual judgments of the videos to assess inter-judge agreement. In cases where inter-judge agreement is poor, you should view the videos together and come to agreement about what constitutes stuttering in each individual.