For the people who stutter (PWS), the high cost in fees, time lost from work and studies, and geographical inaccessibility often make it impossible to benefit from this kind of treatment.

Even those who can are often faced with severe problems in post-treatment fluency maintenance to avoid regression.

• Places the specialized tools needed for treatment in the clinic and in the PWS's home.
• Gives immediate feedback to the PWS on the execution of fluency formation skills, including prolonged syllables, gentle onsets, gentle transitions, reduced air pressure, reduced articulatory pressure and coordinated abdominal breathing.

• Allows much of the training to take place in the convenient home environment.
• Provides PWS with a long term fluent speech maintenance program to alleviate the chronic problem of post-treatment regression.
• Dramatically reduces costly clinician time during treatment and in record keeping.
• Provides the clinician with a comprehensive database to track patient progress and identify problem areas.
  

• Prolonged syllables
• Correct breathing
• Gentle onsets
• Reduced articulatory pressure
• Reduced air pressure
• Gentle transitions
• Correct voice curve

• Computerized stop-watch
• Digitized tape-recording
• Oscilloscope
• Breathing / speech coordination monitor
• Interactive speech analyzer

• An extensive training program composed of fourteen lessons, over 100 sub-units and hundreds of exercise groups developed on the basis of established treatment programs
• An easy-to-use database reporting system for tracking patient progress and identifying problem areas during the course
• Over 400 instructive and entertaining multimedia animations and vocal examples for enhancing the quality and attractiveness of treatment
• Interactive self-evaluation dialogs integrated with precise computer feedback on the execution of training exercises
• User-friendly interface, that includes "explanation windows", "exercise windows" and "results display windows" to maximize the training process
• On-line "Help" and instructive "Demo" database functions
• Multimedia simulations of "real-life" speaking encounters
• A post-treatment, long term fluency maintenance facility

• A "treatment generator" for creating customized treatments according to special patient and therapist needs
• Generator of translations to other languages
• Database facility for easy adjustment of feedback parameters to individual requirements

User Guide for
the Dr. Fluency® Computerized Stuttering Treatment Program Slide Show Demo

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A. Hardware Requirements:

• 486 IBM PC (or compatible)
• Voice card
• Windows 3.1 or higher
• 4 RAM (8 RAM is recommended)
• 8M of free space on your hard disk
• SuperVGA 480 X 640 X 256 colors

B. Installation instructions

1. Download the file dfldemo.exe (2.8 M) from ftp.sts.co.il.or or 1 2 3 4.
2. Save the file(s) to a temporary directory on your disk, say, C:\TEMP, and run it. Dr. Fluency Demo installation files will be un-zipped to that directory.
3. Run program "setup.exe" that will appear in your download directory.
4. Follow the installation instructions that appear on your screen, as they appear during the setup.
5. A Windows Program Group, called "Dr. Fluency Demo" will appear on your screen containing the icon of "Dr. Fluency Demo".
6. Delete all files in your temporary files' directory.
7. Run the program by selecting the icon "Dr. Fluency Demo" with your mouse.
8. Follow the instructions appearing in the Demo.

C. Trouble Shooting:

If you have problems installing or running "The Dr. Fluency® Computerized Stuttering Treatment Program Demo", we suggest that you consider the following suggestions.

I. You tried to install the program according to instructions, but the setup failed?
Suggestions: The Dr. Fluency® Demo requires at least 8 Mega of free space on your hard disk and a properly installed Sound Blaster voice card, or compatible.

1. Be sure that you have at least 8 Mega of free space on your Hard Disk.
2. Make sure that you have a Sound Blaster, or Sound Blaster compatible voice card installed.
   

If you do, make sure that it was installed BEFORE you ran the Dr. Fluency SETUP.
If it was, check to see if the voice card is was properly installed.
Dr. Fluency can't be installed and run without a properly pre-installed Sound Blaster, or compatible, voice card.

II. The installation was successful, but you can't load the program, or the program shuts down in the middle of use.
There could be several reasons for this.

1. The Dr. Fluency® Demo will work properly only if you run Windows in the 386 ENHANCED MODE.
   Check to see if you are in 386 ENHANCED MODE. If not, make the necessary adjustments.
2. Confirm that your computer has at least 4 RAM.
3. Running other large programs simultaneously with The Dr. Fluency® Demo can cause a lack of free memory, which can be a cause of these problems.
   

Make sure that you have closed all other programs on your computer.

III. The Dr. Fluency® Demo works, but it works very slowly. What should you do?

1. First, be sure that your PC is at least a 386 DX x 40 megahertz.
   If it is lower than this, the program will always run slowly.
   
2. The Dr. Fluency® Demo requires a Windows with a permanent SWAP file with a setting of at least 8 MB.
   

You may have set less than 8 MB. Correct this and reload the program.

IV. Instead of lively and finely color coordinated graphics on your screen, you get only dull and sometimes strangely colored graphics with a very limited range of colors.
Suggestion: Dr. Fluency® programs are designed to run of SuperVGA screens.

1. Be sure that you screen is SuperVGA.
2. If it is, make sure that it has been properly installed.

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