According to the device's published specs, SpeechEasy hearing aid-style DAF devices have 15 dB default amplication with a maximum volume of 105 dB.[ref]ANDREW STUART, SHIXIONG XIA, YINING JIANG, TAO JIANG, JOSEPH KALINOWSKI, MICHAEL P. RASTATTER. 2003. Self-Contained In-the-Ear Device to Deliver Altered Auditory Feedback: Applications for Stuttering. Annals of Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 31, p. 235, [...]
Since I started taking vitamin B-1 a year and a half ago, my fluency has been very good. Even in stressful speaking situations I'm very fluent. But there's one situation in which I stutter severely: when there's loud background noise, such as at parties. The "conventional wisdom" is that stutterers talk fluently when we can't [...]
Psychologists have studied the judgment of experts since the Tenerife airport disaster. On March 27, 1977, KLM's top Boeing 747 pilot started to take off on a foggy runway in the Canary Islands. The flight engineer, the lowest-ranking officer in the cockpit and not a qualified pilot, told the pilot that a Pan Am 747 [...]
Do stutterers fear social interactions? How likely are stutterers likely to have mental illnesses? Should stutterers seek treatment from psychologists or from speech-language pathologists? According to an old theory, stuttering is the "tip of an iceberg," with 90% of the problem being fears and anxieties that listeners don't see, and physical stuttering being only 10% [...]
I am 21 years old. Recently, I graduated from my third college course and still no job. Interviews come by the dozens but job offers are none! I am a Pharmacy Assistant Health Care Aide plus a medical transcriptionist, but after all the years in school and all the money spent on education, I am [...]