The Future of Education
Interaction Between Attentional Supervisor and Phonological Component in the System Pathogenesis of Stuttering. A Sase Study
Andrea di somma, Asl napoli 2 nord (Italy)
maria cristina veneroso, Universita degli studi di Napoli Federico II (Italy)
Vincenzo Di Maro, Associazione Nazionale Disturbi dell’Apprendimento (Italy)
Giovanni D\\\'antuono, Università degli studi di modena (Italy)
Francesco Benso, University of Genoa (Italy)
Abstract
The international literature confirms more and more that the Executive attentional system intervenes in language development by encouraging the processes of "modularization" overseeing the competitive
selection of automated schemes, controlling the modules.
The work will aim to demonstrate the relationship between the phonological complexity of the linguistic context of production, working memory and attention system in the pathogenesis of stuttering and during
treatment, having as a theoretical frame of reference the modular hierarchical model of Moscovitch and Umiltà (1990). This model, welcomes and embraces the mono componential viewpoints assuming the role of
Executive attentional system as central to the development of language. The speech samples collected by us, relating to speech of stutterers (20 cases) showed that the phonological complexity of linguistic contexts
(lexical, morphosyntactic and narrative) is directly proportional to the number of disfluencies produced. If the job in memory increases the amount of information to be processed and for the component neurolinguistic decoding, the degree of automation articulatory act should increase as you pass by a repetition of a word, for a production of a sentence of up to spontaneous storytelling. Let us assume that the means of intervention of the attentional system supervisor within the organization of the "stuttering" system would be regulated by the
amount of resources at the disposal of the same: in the event that the resources are insufficient to facilitate the process of automating the subject will need in a constant intervention of control which, however, will
always be inadequate to complete automation; in the second mode of operation, which turns out to be statistically the most frequent, the Supervisor attention system, after an initial condition of weak resource
allocation, will intervene massively in the control of the language module with non-specific resources. However, even if at a later stage of the development of the Supervisor attention system resources are reestablish,
it is possible that the form of the control mode persists enough to lead to a loss of fluidity. Therapeutically this feature takes advantage of training based on the construct of the "double duty" that encourage the reallocation of "resources" with the language module that will retrieve fluidity.
