Inducement of Fluent Speech in Persons Who Stutter Via Visual Choral Speech
Author
Kalinowski, Joseph Stanley; Stuart, Andrew; Rastatter, Michael P.; Snyder, Gregory; Dayalu, Vikram N.
Abstract
A novel phenomenon of fluency enhancement via visual gestures of speech in the absence of traditional auditory feedback is reported herein. The effect on visual choral speech on stuttering frequency was investigated. Ten participants who stuttered recited memorized text aloud under two conditions. In a Visual Choral Speech (VCS) condition participants were instructed to focus their gaze on the face, lips and jaw of a research assistant who "silently mouthed" the text in unison. In a control condition, participants recited memorized text to the research assistant who sat motionless. A statistically significant (p= .0025) reduction of approximately 80% in stuttering frequency was observed in the VCS condition. As visual linguistic cues are sufficient to activate the auditory cortex, one may speculate that VCS induces fluency in a similar yet undetermined manner as altered auditory feedback does.
Date
2000
Citation:
APA:
Kalinowski, Joseph Stanley, & Stuart, Andrew, & Rastatter, Michael P., & Snyder, Gregory, & Dayalu, Vikram N.. (January 2000).
Inducement of Fluent Speech in Persons Who Stutter Via Visual Choral Speech.
Neuroscience Letters,
281(2-3),
198-
3 p. 198-200. Retrieved from
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/1103
MLA:
Kalinowski, Joseph Stanley, and Stuart, Andrew, and Rastatter, Michael P., and Snyder, Gregory, and Dayalu, Vikram N..
"Inducement of Fluent Speech in Persons Who Stutter Via Visual Choral Speech". Neuroscience Letters.
281:2-3. (198-200),
January 2000.
September 27, 2023.
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/1103.
Chicago:
Kalinowski, Joseph Stanley and Stuart, Andrew and Rastatter, Michael P. and Snyder, Gregory and Dayalu, Vikram N.,
"Inducement of Fluent Speech in Persons Who Stutter Via Visual Choral Speech," Neuroscience Letters 281, no.
2-3 (January 2000),
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/1103 (accessed
September 27, 2023).
AMA:
Kalinowski, Joseph Stanley, Stuart, Andrew, Rastatter, Michael P., Snyder, Gregory, Dayalu, Vikram N..
Inducement of Fluent Speech in Persons Who Stutter Via Visual Choral Speech. Neuroscience Letters.
January 2000;
281(2-3):
198-200.
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/1103. Accessed
September 27, 2023.
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East Carolina University