Winter 2010 Newsletter
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winter_newsletter_2010:newsletter 2/1/10 7:36 AM Page 1 www.stutteringhelp.org • 800-992-9392 • www.tartamudez.org THE STUTTERING FOUNDATION ᭨ A Nonprofit Organization WINTER 2010 Since 1947... Helping Those Who Stutter Neurobiology of Stuttering: Are there distinct subtypes? By Anne L. Foundas, M.D. The exact cause of stuttering is likely to be complex and may be multifactorial. One potential mechanism relates to a defec- tive speech monitoring system. The basic theory is that ongoing sequential and fluent speech output is dependent on auditory sensory feedback, which moni- tors and corrects errors online. w Film w Insights In normally fluent individuals, a Ne Ne dysfluency would be detected Tools for Success: Solution signs of change along the way. as an “error”, and this error Focused Brief Therapy Taster is a “Solution Focused Brief 1 would be automatically correct- new 3 ⁄2 hour DVD offering high- Therapy has given me a great ed on-line via auditory self- lights from a workshop featuring way to find out what my clients monitoring. Stuttering behav- Willie Botterill and Frances Cook have been doing since our last iors, such as involuntary repeti- as they provide insights into using session to move themselves for- tions, blocks, or prolongations Solution Focused Brief Therapy ward. I really like how the ques- in the ut- with those who stutter. tioning leads them to solutions.” terance of This taster introduces partici- said Brian Heskin, who took part speech el- pants to the principles and practice in the workshop featured in this e m e n t s , of Solution Focused Brief Therapy, new film. He added, “I use the may be providing examples of children, rating scale that clients do by i n d u c e d parents, and teenagers describing themselves all the time since it by disrupted auditory self-mon- their ‘best hopes’ for the seems to give them itoring within a closed-loop sys- future, using scales to de- ownership on what they tem. Thus, stuttering can be termine the skills and re- are or are not doing to modeled, as the result of dis- sources they already have move themselves for- turbed auditory feedback. to attain that future, and ward. The positive ap- In 2001, we found that the identifying the small proach fits so well.” K planum temporale (PT), a brain region important in auditory processing, was anatomically Solution Focused Brief Therapy... atypical in adults with persis- What is going well? And what else? And what else? tent developmental stuttering (PDS). However, the associa- By Frances Cook, MSc, MRC- being “stuck” in problem pat- tion of atypical PT anatomy to SLT (Hons) Cert. CT terns in which attempts to re- atypical function was not di- (Oxford) solve or cope with their difficul- rectly examined in this study. ties have become part of the problem. Therefore, in another study we De Shazer’s model of attempted to determine whether Solution Focused Brief However it is assumed that there will be times there was a relationship be- Therapy is based on when problems do not occur or tween fluency and the anatomy several core assump- occur less and that clients of the PT under conditions of tions about the nature of Continued on page 13 change. Clients are viewed as Continued on page 6 winter_newsletter_2010:newsletter 2/1/10 7:36 AM Page 2 THE STUTTERING OUNDATION᭨ 2 www.stutteringhelp.org F 800-992-9392 Longtime SFA Supporter Edward Rondthaler Dies at 104 Edward Rondthaler was one of the 20th century’s foremost men of letters – actual physical audible letters. An outspoken advocate of spelling re- form, he spent decades trying to impose order on his 26 lawless charges. As a noted ty- pographer who first plied his trade 99 years ago, he helped bring the art of typesetting from the age of hot metal into the modern era – and he was a per- son who stuttered. Mr. Rondthaler established a national reputation by helping usher in the age of photographic typesetting. Phototypesetting was for decades a vital bridge between the hot-metal days of old and the dig- ital typography of today. A man of strong constitution and ardent enthusiasms, Mr. Rondthaler died on Aug. Photo by Joyce Dopken of the New York Times. 19, 2009. He was 104 and attributed his longevity to having taken cold showers daily since 1918. Mr. Rondthaler first became known more than 70 years ago for his seminal work in November 23 ‘81 photographic typesetting. In the mid-1930s, he and a colleague, Harold Horman, perfected a phototypeset- Speech Foundation of America ting device that helped streamline the tra- 152 Lombardy Rd. Memphis, Tenn. 38111 ditional art of setting type. Known as the Rutherford photo-lettering machine, it Gentlemen: was one of the first such devices in wide It is with enormous pleasure that I send you this check commercial use. for a thousand dollars. Two weeks ago I received your book ‘Self-Therapy for the Stutterer” and have read it with Armed with their new machine, the amazement. Every word in it rings true. And I speak from two men founded Photo-Lettering Inc., a a lifetime of experience---from Adler, Bassett, and Bogue right down the alphabet to Scripture, Twitmyer and Warren. highly respected New York typographic house whose clients included many of Those experiences are from long ago. Today, at 76, the the country’s best-known magazines severity is much much less, and for half of my life stam- mering has been more of an inconvenience than a handicap. and advertising agencies. What excites me is that at last someone has gotten to the Edward Rondthaler III was born on root of the trouble and can write about it in an under- standing, lucid way. I have total empathy with every line. June 9, 1905, in Bethlehem, Pa. His fa- It all makes sense. ther was a bishop of the Moravian When I was a boy there were many young stammerers. There Church, as was his paternal grandfa- seem to be fewer now, and for a long time I had been won- ther. Edward III was reared in Winston- dering why. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen the lit- tle ads that Bogue and others used to have in almost every Salem, N.C., where his father was magazine. Clearly speech correction has at last risen president of Salem College. above quackery, and I’m sure that your foundation has had At 5, Edward received a toy print- much to do with that. ing press as a gift and began pub- If you have more information about the Foundation I’d like lishing his own newspaper - a very to know about it. I’d like to remember it in my will. small newspaper, about the size of a Very cordially, postcard. Only a few years later, he and a friend opened a print shop in a nearby basement, doing jobs for winter_newsletter_2010:newsletter 2/1/10 7:36 AM Page 3 THE STUTTERING WINTER 2010 FOUNDATION ᭨ 800-992-9392 3 Longtime SFA Supporter Edward Rondthaler Dies at 104 paying customers; they ran the business through high school and Ed Rondthaler with Jane Fraser (left photo) and for a year afterward, to earn col- Stuttering Foundation Board lege money. member Jean Gruss (below) After studying at at a reception honoring Stuttering Foundation Westminster Choir College — Founder, Malcolm Fraser besides singing, he played the (middle photo). Ed had lobbied flute, oboe and bassoon — Mr. tirelessly for Malcolm to receive the Doctor of Humane Rondthaler earned a bachelor’s Letters from Hamilton College degree in psychology from the in 1989 for his work on behalf University of North Carolina, of those who stutter. Chapel Hill, in 1929. He wrote his senior thesis on the effects of different typefaces on the read- er’s perception of a text. Throughout these years, he struggled with stuttering and hoped that his music studies would help alleviate the difficulty. Mr. Rondthaler then moved to New York, where he was an art director for a commercial type- setter. In 1936, he and Mr. Horman founded Photo- Lettering, which specialized in headline and display type. The two men finally met face to face company was built around their “So we all move the morning of June 15, 1989, after new phototypesetting machine, along trying to many years of corresponding. which helped modernize a tech- Earlier Rondthaler had this to say nology that had changed little in make the world a about Fraser’s book, “I have read hundreds of years. little better because your book, Self Therapy for the For centuries, type was cast in Stutterer, with amazement. Every molten lead and set painstakingly we were here.” word of it rings true. And I speak by hand. In the mid-20th century, from a lifetime of experience.” the advent of phototypesetting ~Edward Rondthaler wrote in “What excites me is that at last freed the alphabet from its leaden a letter to Jane Fraser in 1987 someone has gotten to the root of the shackles, making it possible to trouble and can write about it in an He was a prolific writer of letters manipulate letters as pure photo- understanding, lucid way. I have to the editor on a variety of subjects. graphic images. total empathy with every line. It all He invented many things, including Mr. Rondthaler also helped makes sense.” K a slide rule that calculated currency- found the International Typeface exchange rates and another slide When asked why Corporation, which designed and rule that computed cooking times of licensed many commercial fonts, foods based on weight.