Airflow therapy programs: Facts and/or fancy

Life experiences of people who stutter, and the perceived impact of stuttering on quality of life: personal accounts of South African individuals

“…I talk in pictures to express myself". These findings were not unexpected as Miller (1982) states that all fluency-based programs have in common, decreased speech rate, fewer stress contrasts and continuous breath flow, which allow stutterers more time to co-ordinate their systems of respiration, articulation and phonation for speech production. Breitenfeldt and Lorenz (1999) explain that stutterers usually try many ways to hide the fact that they stutter.…”

The Rise and Fall of Operant Programs for the Treatment of Stammering

“…They all en courage smooth initiation of phonation, con tinuous phonation or breath flow, and the coordination of articulation and phonation [9], In order to establish fluent speech, the stammerer must initially reduce his speaking rate. This facilitates coordination, allows the stammerer to concentrate on maintaining a continuous breath flow across word bound aries, with a smooth, easy transition of voic ing from one word to the next.…”

A stuttering therapy programme with spastic dysphonia: A single case study

“…Based on the factors which induce fluency in stutterers, remediation has shifted to manipulation of phonation utilizing behaviour modification techniques as a vehicle for establishing fluency (Shames and Florance 1980). Common to all 'fluency-based' programmes are smooth initiation of phonation, decreased rate and continuous phonation and breath flow which facilitates co-ordination of the vocal folds concurrent with the execution of articulatory gestures (Miller 1982). Schwartz (1976) felt that it was the reduction in stress on the cords which facilitated their laxing and lengthening and enabled their greater bulk to vibrate.…”