Stuttering/Fluency Belief Inventory (SBI)

K. Dale Gronhovd and Phillip L. Rice

A 130 item belief checklist about stuttering, fluent speech, stutterers, and fluent speakers has been developed and used to investigate:

1) Stutterers’ belief systems.

2) Cognitive change during successful therapy.

3) The relationship of beliefs to speech-related anxiety.

These studies were used to identify the most useful items and trim the size of the checklist to 81 items. It has been renamed the Stuttering/Fluency Belief Inventory (SBI). The SBI will be presented and distributed and it’s clinical and research potential will be discussed.