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Source for Stuttering and Cluttering

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I've really enjoyed everything that I've ever read from David Daly. I've read a few articles, a few chapters in various books that were guest-written by him, and now I've read this book. I bought this book mostly because it has a very substantive part on cluttering, and I am a clutterer.

The revolutionary approach that David Daly has to cluttering is his 33-item test of cluttering, where the SLP rates the clutterer on a scale of 0 to 3 for each item, and then comes up with a grand total. If the person scores 55 or above, then the person can be given a diagnosis of cluttering. If it is 35-55, then the diagnosis may be a hybrid of stuttering/cluttering.

He's also got a lot of other good information and resources on cluttering in this book.

This book is also the only place that I've seen where you can get actual speech samples of clutterers. This book comes with a 60-minute audiotape. Only 15 minutes is dedicated to cluttering, but there are 4 different speech samples of cluttering. Getting those samples alone is worth the price of the tape.

And, to be fair, the book is mostly about stuttering, it's like the tape, only 1/4 of it is dedicated to cluttering, but that's much more than most stuttering books dedicate to cluttering.

If you haven't heard David Daly's story, then you should read it on his website at stuttertreatment.com. The really cool thing about his story is that he was a person who stutters, and he always had the goal of being perfectly fluent. It took him years to make much progress, but he kept trying and trying, and now he's very fluent. About 50% of the tape is David Daly talking. That's really inspirational to me, because even though I haven't ever stuttered, I share his goal of being perfectly fluent. And, I figure that if he can, then I can, too.

One of my undergraduate professors introduced me to this book. It is a WONDERFUL resource not only for diagnosing fluency disorders, but also for therapy. Daly gives you a great buy for your money.