An advanced concept of altered auditory feedback as a prothesis-therapy for stuttering founded on a non-speech etiologic paradigm
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Prado, Manuel [1] ; Fernández, Carlos [1]
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[1] Universidad de Sevilla
Universidad de Sevilla
Sevilla, España
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- Localización: Handbook of research on personal autonomy technologies and disability informatics / Javier Pereira-Loureiro (ed. lit.), 2011, ISBN 9781605662060, págs. 76-118
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Persistent Developmental Stuttering affects 1-2% of the world adult population. Its etiology is still unknown, although modern neuroimaging techniques have shown a new and exciting perspective of earlier ideas and hypotheses. However it is now clear that a new approach to understand the true nature of the disorder is needed. We present a new etiological model of persistent developmental stuttering based on a deep analysis of earlier models and on the stuttering phenomenology, described in basic, clinical, and even ethnographic sources. One of the more stimulating conclusions has been the suggestion that stuttering is a non-speech based disorder, in opposition to the accepted belief. The implications of this model have guided the design of a new adaptive AAF device for prosthetic and therapeutic functions. It is supported by a wearable multimodal intelligent system, which evolves from a preliminary proposal presented in (Prado & Roa, 2007).
