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White noise masking has been well documented to reduce stuttering. [2] [10] [11] Clinic-based and portable devices, such as the Edinburgh Masker (since discontinued) have been developed to deliver masking, and found that masking was effective in reducing stuttering, [12] [13] though many found that reduction in stuttering faded with time. [14]
Stuttering is a speech disorder that interferes with the fluent production of speech. Some of the symptoms that characterize stuttering disfluencies are repetitions, prolongations and blocks. [ 4 ] Early investigators suggested and have continually been proven correct in assuming that those who stutter had an abnormal speech–auditory feedback ...
The following is a list of anti-stuttering devices, which are used to control stuttering. These have also been used to control cluttering . Pages in category "Anti-stuttering devices"
Emphasizing the importance of wearing a hearing device when needed, a 2020 commission on dementia prevention, intervention, and care, published by The Lancet, suggested hearing loss may be ...
Stuttering therapy is any of the various treatment methods that attempt to either reduce stuttering to some degree in an individual or cope with negative impacts of living with a stutter or social stigma. [1] Stuttering can be seen as a challenge to treat because there is a lack of consensus about therapy, and there is no cure for stuttering. [2]
The American Institute for Stuttering is an American nonprofit organization that provides universally affordable speech therapy to people who stutter.The organization, legally known as The American Institute for Stuttering Treatment and Professional Training (AIS), was founded in 1998 by speech-language pathologist Catherine Otto Montgomery in New York, New York.
Such devices are known as speech generating devices (SGD) or voice output communication aids (VOCA). [36] A device's speech output may be digitized and/or synthesized: digitized systems play recorded words or phrases and are generally more intelligible while synthesized speech uses text-to-speech software that can be harder to understand but ...
Speech–language pathology (a.k.a. speech and language pathology or logopedics) is a healthcare and academic discipline concerning the evaluation, treatment, and prevention of communication disorders, including expressive and mixed receptive-expressive language disorders, voice disorders, speech sound disorders, speech disfluency, pragmatic language impairments, and social communication ...