Delayed Auditory Feedback and Stuttering Severity

Monica Medeiros De Britto Pereira, Carla Ferrante, Claudia Regina Furquim de Andrade and John Van Borsel

The results will be reported of an ongoing study that investigates stuttering severity as a possible variable to take into account when considering the use of Delayed Auditory Feedback (DAF) in an individual client. Analyses completed thus far in five male participants (age 13 to 48 years) with developmental stuttering of different degrees of severity suggest that the amount of reduction of stuttered disfluencies is not necessarily larger when stuttering is more severe and that just like normals also stuttering individuals may demonstrate an increase of disfluencies as the result of DAF.