The knowledge of a panel of experts for diagnosing incipient stuttering and initiating its management will be gathered and organized for the development of an expert system. Two versions of the system will be constructed. One will be for use as an interactive textbook by students in training as speech-language pathologists, and the other will be for use as an interactive textbook by professional speech-language pathologists seeking the advice of experts in making clinical management decisions for children who may be beginning to stutter. The project will make available current knowledge and information about the onset of stuttering in formats that will improve the training of students in more than 200 college and university speech-language training programs and the clinical practices of over 50,000 speech-language clinicians employed in this country.
Anticipated Results:This product could be sold as a floppy disk in conjunction with a monograph. It is believed that 10 or 20 copies could be sold each year at each of the 200 university training programs of speech-language pathology in the United States. In addition, it is expected that a substantial percentage of the 50,000 clinicians in the United States would purchase a copy.National Institute Of Child Health And Human Development
