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Long-Term Impact of a Miniature Metronome on Stuttering: An Interim Report

of the metronome beat. The reduction in stuttering at the end of the period when I paced my speech with the mecronome under "laboratory" conditions was essentially the same as it was at the beginning. The factors which did appear to be responsible were ( 1) a reduction in the extent to which I attended to the metronome beat and (2) a reduction in my expectation of fluency when I used the device. During the three-year period I found myself attending less and less to the metronome beat while I spoke and becoming less and less certain that using the device would have a significant impact on the severity of my stuttering. Either or both of these factors based on anticipatory-struggle theory (Bloodstein, 1975) could account for the observed reduction in the impact of the device. I plan to continue wearing the device in order to refine and test the above hypotheses regarding factors which reduce its impact on stuttering.