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From: Ryan Pollard
Date: 06 Oct 2008
Time: 13:48:39 -0500
Remote Name: 128.138.64.163
John’s right: coming up with a reliable profile of SpeechEasy “responders” and “nonresponders” before actually trying the device would be quite a coup. As it happens, there have been some intriguing efforts in this direction from stuttering researchers. For instance, we cite two of Dr. Molt’s recent papers that address what type of stutterer might be a good SpeechEasy candidate (2007b and 2007c). You might try searching for those papers or at least the abstracts and see where that takes you. There has also been some work bearing on the issue of whether one’s predominant type of disfluency (i.e., repetition, prolongation, or block) might predict success with the SpeechEasy (Stuart et al., 2008). The thinking was that those with stuttering characterized by mostly silent blocks may not benefit as much from altered auditory feedback. This particular study did not support that hypothesis.