STOPPING THE STUTTERING WITH SPEECHEASY

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DVD • STOD749W

Price $49.95

Program Contents:  17 minutes

Captioning: Closed Captioned

Copyright Date: 2002

Available in the United States and Canada Only

There is no definitive explanation for why speaking in unison tends to alleviate stuttering, but that doesn’t mean the concept cannot be put to good use. This ABC News program reports on the remarkable SpeechEasy, an unobtrusive fluency device that uses altered auditory feedback to create a choral effect. The Emmy Award-winning first segment profiles speech therapist and co-inventor Joseph Kalinowski, who explains how the SpeechEasy works. Segment two follows up with the story of a young man for whom the device has been nothing short of a miracle. The program also identifies factors that may predispose a person to stuttering and sensitively addresses the emotional anguish that so often accompanies the disorder.