Rethinking covert stuttering

Constantino, Christopher; Manning, Walter H.; Nordstrom, Susan Naomi

doi:10.1016/j.jfludis.2017.06.001

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“…47 Experiences of discrimination and delegitimization encourage stutterers to hide their identity. 48 To say that autistic people and stutterers have a pathology because of the consequences of their neurological condition is to engage in victim blaming. These consequences are often the result of society's reaction to them and not the conditions themselves.…”

Section: Medical Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

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What Can Stutterers Learn from the Neurodiversity Movement?

Constantino

2018

Semin Speech Lang

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Neurodiversity is both an empowerment movement and a way of thinking about disability. Rather than focusing on pathology and impairment, neurodiversity emphasizes natural variation and the unique skills, experiences, and traits of neurodivergent individuals. People who stutter are beginning to work with and derive value from these concepts. In this article, we look at the history of neurodiversity and its key ideas. We discuss the conventional view of disability, the medical model, which situates disability within the individual as pathology. We also take up social and relation models of disability, which situate disability in social oppression or mismatches between individuals and their environment. Neurodiversity has not been without controversy. We look at some of the disagreements surrounding issues of intervention and cure. The ideas of neurodiversity are applied to stuttering, and a case example illustrating therapy using these ideas is given. We conclude that therapy should focus on subject's well-being and not normalization of superficial behaviors.

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Section: Medical Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The compounded effect of a lifetime of these experiences is profound. [48][49][50][77][78][79] Stuttering has far ranging effects on personal relationships, vocational attainment, and financial success. 49,50,77,80 But even the most profound stutterers experience fluency; in fact, a high percentage of their syllables is likely to be fluent.…”

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What Can Stutterers Learn from the Neurodiversity Movement?

Constantino

2018

Semin Speech Lang

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“…There are additional reports that stuttering is met with unsolicited, unwelcome, or unhelpful advice such as, "Have you tried slowing down?" or hostile orders to "Just be quiet" (Constantino, Manning, & Nordstrom, 2017;Plexico et al, 2009a). Compared to adults who do not stutter (AWNS), AWS experience elevated levels of psychological distress (Tran et al, 2011) and heightened trait and social anxiety (see Craig & Tran, 2014 for review).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Listeners expect to hear typically fluent speech and assume that a speaker does not stutter until there is reason to believe otherwise (Guntupalli, Everhart, Kalinowski, Nanjundeswaran, & Saltuklaroglu, 2007). When people who stutter speak fluently in a spontaneous or controlled manner, their "stuttering identity" can go unnoticed and they can "pass" as fluent speakers (Constantino et al, 2017). Finally, AWS are often skilled at intentionally concealing their stuttering-like disfluencies using a number of strategies to keep their identities as people who stutter a secret.…”

Section: Stuttering As a Concealable Stigmatized Identity (Csi)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Most of the existing literature on covert stuttering consists of reports based on clinical observation (E. Douglass & Quarrington, 1952;Murphy et al, 2007;Petrunik & Shearing, 1983) and qualitative studies of AWS (Butler, 2013;Constantino et al, 2017). Much of this work has described unhealthy motivations and negative consequences related to concealing stuttering.…”

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The role of stigma-identity constructs in psychological health outcomes among adults who stutter

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There are a handful of other people who have been integral to my success. Bill Murphy, thank you for advocating for my acceptance at The University of Iowa and for sparking my interest in stuttering. Karla McGregor, thank you for making me a better writer. I learned so much from you. Evan Totty, thank you for your input about the statistical analyses in this project and for your time and friendship. Anu Subramanian, you have been an incredible friend and mentor to me. I hit the jackpot when I met you at Purdue, and I will greatly miss having you nearby. When it comes to you, I can't sum up all that I am grateful for, so thank you for everything. Naomi Rodgers, there is no one else that I would have rather gone through this process with. I look forward to a lifetime of friendship and collaboration. Finally, Matt, I could not have completed this project without your unwavering support and positivity. Thank you for moving to Iowa for me and for weathering the good, bad, and ugly dissertation days. I can't wait to start the next chapter with you.

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Stuttering

Yaruss

Nasir

2019

Encyclopedia of Life Sciences

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Stuttering is a communication disorder that involves disruptions in a person's ability to produce speech fluently. In many cases, stuttering results in adverse impact on the person's communication and overall quality of life. The most common type of stuttering, childhood‐onset fluency disorder, typically starts during the preschool years. It is a genetically influenced condition associated with differences in neurological structure and function. It is believed to be due to a complex interaction involving several key aspects of a child's development. Many children go through a period of stuttering when they are very young, but the majority recover, even without intervention. Early intervention can increase the rate of recovery in young children. Individuals who do not recover in early childhood are likely to continue stuttering throughout their lives, though speech therapy and support experiences can help people enhance their fluency and reduce the adverse impact of the disorder. Key Concepts Stuttering is a communication disorder that involves both disruptions in speech fluency and adverse impact on quality of life. Stuttering is associated with neurological differences; stuttering is not just a habit or behaviour that one learns. Stuttering behaviours are highly variable across situations and over time. Early intervention can help to hasten recovery in young children. There is no known cure for stuttering in school‐age children, adolescents and adults, though treatment and support experiences can help speakers improve their speech fluency and reduce the adverse impact of the disorder. Speech‐language pathologists should address more than just observable speech behaviours in treatment with individuals who stutter.

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Rethinking covert stuttering

Cited by 70 publications

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What Can Stutterers Learn from the Neurodiversity Movement?

What Can Stutterers Learn from the Neurodiversity Movement?

The role of stigma-identity constructs in psychological health outcomes among adults who stutter

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