The Vicious Cycle: Linguistic Encoding, Self Monitoring and Stuttering

Nan Bernstein Ratner and Frank Wijnen

This session will present two independently developed but compatible models of stuttering that propose aberrant self-monitoring as a critical feature in the precipitation of stuttered events. We will begin with comparisons between normal and stuttered disfluency and features of stuttering that are not well accommodated within most current models of the disorder. We will then present two complementary, testable models that link language, fluency and self-monitoring abilities in CWS and AWS, data to support these models, and suggestions for future research.