The need for self-report data in the assessment of stuttering therapy efficacy: repetitions and prolongations of speech. The stuttering syndrome.
The need for self-report data in the assessment of stuttering therapy efficacy: repetitions and prolongations of speech. The stuttering syndrome.
复制标题
评估口吃治疗效果时需要自我报告数据:言语的重复和延长。
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发表时间:
2006
影响因子:
2.4
通讯作者:
T. Saltuklaroglu
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文献类型:
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作者:
V. Guntupalli;J. Kalinowski;T. Saltuklaroglu
BACKGROUND
Bloodstein reviewed hundreds of studies that investigated the efficacy of therapeutic protocols for ameliorating the stuttering syndrome. Surprisingly, almost all were effective in significantly reducing overtly perceptible behaviours such as repetitions and prolongations of speech sounds. These results seem highly improbable considering that many of the treatment methods were diametrically opposed in their principles and implementation procedures (e.g. psychoanalysis, drug therapy, behaviourism, cognitive behavioural therapy and auditory feedback devices with rate control, etc.). In addition, time and more ecologically valid methods such as self-report measures demonstrate that overt measures of success are tenuous, their ameliorative effects tend to diminish drastically over time and show poor generalizability. Further, the real conundrum in stuttering therapy is the failure to acknowledge stuttering as a complete syndrome of continuous compensatory behaviours.
AIMS
To highlight how self-report measures serve as a primary tool to understand the syndrome-like nature of stuttering and to test the efficacy of the therapy outside the confines of the clinic and the needs of the people who stutter.
METHODS & PROCEDURES/OUTCOMES & RESULTS
In the past, therapeutic efficacy has typically been measured by the reduction in overtly observable and countable events of stuttering such as repetitions and prolongations. However, recent neuroimaging data and our research suggest that the stuttering syndrome is more than the mere presence of peripheral speech disruptions. Stuttering is a central, experiential sense of 'loss of control' that manifests itself across a continuum of compensatory behaviours from the central nervous system outwards to the speech periphery. In other words, aberrant neural activity, as well as covert stuttering behaviours, subperceptual stuttering forms and overt speech disruptions are all effects or compensations for the central involuntary 'neural block'. Hence, by counting only perceptible portions of the disorder, efficacy measures 'fail to capture' the experiential sense of 'loss of control' and the covert compensatory behaviours of the disorder (i.e. avoidances of words or situations, substitutions, circumlocutions, subperceptual stuttering forms, etc.). Furthermore, unnatural sounding speech, decreased ease of speech production, elevated levels of clinic room fluency and poor reliability in counting stuttering behaviours confound the overt measures in the clinic milieu. Therefore, while overt measures remain important, used in isolation, they cannot provide a 'true metric' of efficacy.
CONCLUSIONS
Any efficient and effective means of evaluating intervention methods over the long-term should include a form of self-report as a primary tool as it best accesses the experiential sense of 'loss of control' and other covert behaviours. Overt measures should be used to supplement or complement the self-report data.
影响因子:
2.1
作者:
Yaruss,JScott;Quesal,RobertW;Reeves,Lee;Molt,LawrenceF;Kluetz,Brett;Caruso,AnthonyJ;McClure,JamesA;Lewis,Fred
通讯作者:
Lewis,Fred
DOI:
10.1044/jshr.3004.434
发表时间:
1987
期刊:
Journal of speech and hearing research
影响因子:
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作者:
Watson,BC;Alfonso,PJ
通讯作者:
Alfonso,PJ
DOI:
10.1044/jshr.3905.991
发表时间:
1996
期刊:
Journal of speech and hearing research
影响因子:
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作者:
Story,RS;Alfonso,PJ;Harris,KS
通讯作者:
Harris,KS