In this episode, I'm summarizing two articles about the debate on the term "fluency". In the first article, Seth Tichenor, Christopher Constantino and Scott Yaruss explain how the term has been a source of stigma for people who stutter. They argue for a different use of the term, and for an emphasis on the holistic experience of people who stutter. In the second article, Evan Usler also questions the narrowness of the term. Instead, he proposes to consider communicative fluency. With this approach, he proposes considering the whole of communication as carrying an effective message, even with variations in speech flow typical of stuttering.
Enjoy listening!
Tichenor, S. E., Constantino, C., & Yaruss, J. S. (2022). A point of view about fluency. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 65(2), 645-652.
https://doi.org/10.1044/2021_JSLHR-21-00342
Usler, E. (2022). Communicative fluency and the experience of stuttering: a viewpoint. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 65(10), 3827-3834.
https://doi.org/10.1044/2022_JSLHR-22-00073