EGO STATE OF B.Ed. TRAINEES

INTRODUCTION: The present research project systematically extends the investigation of those relationships by using archival data collected over 30 years ago as part of another research project (Naylor and Rosenthal, 1968). In that project, samples of speech were collected on 16mm film of 32 active duty military personnel, who were referred for stuttering therapy at the Army Audiology and Speech Center at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Each participant was filmed under several speaking conditions both before and at the conclusion of the therapy program. In 1 997, the films were converted to digital media, and new VHS tapes were produced for each subject. The subjects participated in an eight-week, intensive in-patient treatment program that was based on a modification approach similar to that described by Van Riper (1973) and currently used by SSMP (Breitenfeld and Lorenz, 1989). The latter program is described and reviewed by De-Nil, Kroll, and Ham (1996).