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Charles Gage Van Riper (December 1, 1905 – September 25, 1994) was a renowned speech therapist who became internationally known as a pioneer in the development of speech pathology. [1][2] A severe stutterer throughout his career, [3] he is described as having had the most influence of any speech-language pathologist in the field of stuttering ...
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.
Stuttering therapy. 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 ...
Wendell Johnson. Wendell Johnson (April 16, 1906 – August 29, 1965) was an American psychologist, author and was a proponent of general semantics (or GS). His life work contributed greatly to speech–language pathology, particularly in understanding the area of stuttering, as Johnson himself stuttered. The Wendell Johnson Speech and Hearing ...
Stuttering pride (or stammering pride) is a social movement that repositions stuttering as a valuable and respectable way of speaking. [ 1] The stuttering pride movement challenges the pervasive societal narrative of stuttering as a defect, repositioning stuttering as a form of vocal and linguistic diversity that enriches our language, ideas ...
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 ...
The most widely known approach was published by Charles Van Riper in 1973 and is also known as block modification therapy. [54] Stuttering modification therapy should not be used to promote fluent speech or presented as a cure for stuttering. Avoidance Reduction Therapy for Stuttering (ARTS) is an effective form of modification therapy.
Electronic fluency devices (also known as assistive devices, electronic aids, altered auditory feedback devices and altered feedback devices) are electronic devices intended to improve the fluency of persons who stutter. Most electronic fluency devices change the sound of the user's voice in his or her ear. Electronic fluency device.