Fluency shaping therapy, also known as " speak more fluently ", " prolonged speech " or " connected speech ", trains stutterers to speak fluently by controlling their breathing, phonation, and articulation ( lips, jaw, and tongue ).

Brant Riedel ( 2007 ) wrote, “… the ORF Reading Fluency task emphasizes speed rather than comprehension and may actually penalize students who are carefully searching for meaning within the text .” This is a concern that has been brought up by other researchers and teachers as well.

* JapanMath, Math program focused on Math Fact Fluency and Japanese originated logic games

As noted above in the subtest section DIBELS recommends using the initial sound Fluency ( ISF ), Phoneme Segmentation Fluency ( PSF ), and Nonsense Word Fluency ( NWF ) subtests with 1st grade students adding in the ORF subtest half way through the year.

Fluency in Latvian is prevalent among the younger generations of the minorities.

Fluency in Latvian is expected in a variety of professions and careers.

Fluency in multiple languages was a valuable skill for a captain, given that it was not uncommon for armies to consist of a majority of foreign nationals.

* Fluency – The total number of interpretable, meaningful and relevant ideas generated in response to the stimulus.

" ( For a contrary characterization, see " Retroactive Ethical Judgments and Human Subjects Research: the 1939 Tudor Study in Context ," in Robert Goldfarb, ed., Ethics: A Case Study in Fluency ( San Diego and Oxford: Plural Publishing, 2005 ), ch.

It contains links to his Who's Who in America entry and c. v., bibliographies, excerpts from his writing, audio of his general semantics lectures, articles by others about Johnson, and an excerpt from Robert Goldfarb, editor, Ethics: A Case Study from Fluency ( 2005 ).

* Pearson Test of English Academic ( PTE Academic ), a Pearson product, measure Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening as well as Grammar, Oral Fluency, Pronunciation, Spelling, Vocabular and Written Discourse.

Fluency is determined by direct qualitative observation of the patient ’ s speech to determine the length of spoken phrases, and is usually characterized by a normal or rapid rate ; normal phrase length, rhythm, melody, and articulatory agility ; and normal or paragrammatic speech.

Oral reading Fluency was strongly related to performance on all ITBS ( Iowa Test of Basic Skills ) subtests except listening at all testing points starting in the winter of first grade ( Stephen G. Schilling, 2007 ).

Fluency ( i. e. speed, accuracy, expression, and comprehension ) will come with time, but the child's understanding of the relationship between the letter ( s ) and the sounds is the all important first step.

Fluency is defined as linguistic fluency ( e. g. speaking ) as well as literacy ( e. g. reading and writing ).

Evolutionary ethics concerns approaches to ethics ( morality ) based on the role of evolution in shaping human psychology and behavior.

These issues are more difficult for optical approaches as the timescales are orders of magnitude shorter and an often-cited approach to overcoming them is optical pulse shaping.

Recently developed approaches integrating coalescent theory or the genealogical history of alleles and distributional information can more accurately address the relative roles of these different historical forces in shaping current patterns.

Although theoretical and psychotherapeutic approaches vary in their treatment of the topic, a common thread is the fundamental importance of pre-and perinatal experiences in the shaping of the personality and in future psychological development.

Other approaches include dynamic reduction in frame rate or resolution, network admission control, bandwidth reservation, traffic shaping, and traffic prioritization techniques, which require more complex network engineering, but will work when the simple approach of building a non-blocking network is not possible.

Descriptive evolutionary ethics consists of biological approaches to ethics ( morality ) based on the role of evolution in shaping human psychology and behavior.

Such disks are very handy for cutting and shaping small parts.

If we look about the world today, we can see clearly that there are two especially significant factors shaping the future of our civilization: science and religion.

Lu Xun also criticised Confucianism heavily for shaping Chinese people into the condition they had reached by the late Qing Dynasty: his criticism are well portrayed in two of his works, A Madman's Diary and The True Story of Ah Q.

The major factors shaping a cuisine are climate, which in large measure determines the native raw materials that are available, economic conditions, which affect trade and can affect food distribution, imports and exports, and religious or sumptuary laws, under which certain foods are required or proscribed.

For ultimate accuracy and performance, the handloader also has the option of using a wildcat cartridge ; wildcats are the result of shaping the cartridge and chamber themselves to a specific end, and the results push the envelope of velocity, energy, and accuracy.

Forged blades are made by heating a single piece of steel, then shaping the metal while hot using a hammer or press.

Psychohistory derives many of its concepts from areas that are perceived to be ignored by conventional historians as shaping factors of human history, in particular, the effects of childbirth, parenting practice, and child abuse.

QoS contracts limit traffic that can be offered to the Internet and thereby enforce traffic shaping that can prevent it from becoming overloaded, and are hence an indispensable part of the Internet's ability to handle a mix of real-time and non-real-time traffic without meltdown.

The poems of the New Poems and New Poems: The Other Part are highly wrought, using language and poetic form as a shaped and shaping material ; to this extent the poems are often said to be " things " in themselves.

In some countries, its role is limited to literary criticism and an appreciation of audio and visual media, but this narrow focus can inhibit a more general study of the social and political forces shaping how different media are used and their dynamic status within modern culture.

It is common practice for Thais and hill tribe peoples in north and northeast Thailand to use sticky rice as an edible implement by shaping it into small, and sometimes flattened, balls by hand which are then dipped into side dishes and eaten.

In Germany all of the major parties are loosely associated with research foundations that play some role in shaping policy, but generally from the more disinterested role of providing research to support policymakers than explicitly proposing policy.

The main highlights are the new DIB graphics engine, a redesigned audio stack, and full support for bidirectional text and character shaping.

Industrial sociology, until recently a crucial research area within the field of sociology of work, examines " the direction and implications of trends in technological change, globalization, labour markets, work organization, managerial practices and employment relations to the extent to which these trends are intimately related to changing patterns of inequality in modern societies and to the changing experiences of individuals and families the ways in which workers challenge, resist and make their own contributions to the patterning of work and shaping of work institutions.

McCarthy is usually quoted as saying: " I have here in my hand a list of 205 — a list of names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the State Department.

The Orion Nebula is an archetypical example of star formation, from the massive, young stars that are shaping the nebula to the pillars of dense gas that may be the homes of budding stars.

Erosion rates are often monitored, and the risk is ordinarily minimized, by shaping the downstream face of the spillway into a curve that minimizes turbulent flow, such as an ogee curve.

Today, there are several prominent East Germans shaping the image of Germany at home and abroad, including Kurt Masur, Michael Ballack, Katarina Witt, and Angela Merkel.

This mode of TA aims to clarify and bring under public and political scrutiny the normative assumptions and visions that drive the actors who are socially shaping science and technology.

Before 1946, children as well as adults were content in carving and shaping wooden replicas from block wood kits, often depicting enemy aircraft to help in identification in case of invasion.

Forging tends to be reserved for manufacturers ' more expensive product lines, and can often be distinguished from stock removal product lines by the presence of an integral bolster, though integral bolsters can be crafted through either shaping method.

A-weighting is often used to compare and qualify ADCs, for instance, because it more accurately represents the way noise shaping hides dither noise in the ultrasonic range.

While it often ridicules those in power, the strip also focuses on the average American's support for contemporary leaders and their policies, as well as the popular media's role in shaping public perception.

This ' Rainbow Serpent ' is generally and variously identified by those who tell ' Rainbow Serpent ' myths, as a snake of some enormous size often living within the deepest waterholes of many of Australia's waterways ; descended from that larger being visible as a dark streak in the Milky Way, it reveals itself to people in this world as a rainbow as it moves through water and rain, shaping landscapes, naming and singing of places, swallowing and sometimes drowning people ; strengthening the knowledgeable with rainmaking and healing powers ; blighting others with sores, weakness, illness, and death.

It features a wider than normal bit, whose outside edges are sharply turned up, so that when gazing directly down the adze, from bit to eye, the cutting edge resembles an extremely wide and often very flat U. This adze was mainly used for shaping cross grain, such as for joining planks.

This technique is often used to do detailed thinning and shaping of a stone tool.

Because the sintering temperature does not have to reach the melting point of the material, sintering is often chosen as the shaping process for materials with extremely high melting points such as tungsten and molybdenum.

In particular, the party has often been credited with shaping the low-tax, pro-business environment that contributed to Ireland's Celtic Tiger economic boom during the 1990s and 2000s.

Is the craft of shaping rough pieces of rock into accurate geometrical shapes, mostly simple, but some of considerable complexity, and then arranging the resulting stones, often together with mortar, to form structures.

Traffic shaping is often used in combination with:

In addition, intelligent shaping schemes can guarantee a particular Quality of Service ( often measured in jitter, packet loss, and latency ) for an application or a user while still allowing other traffic to use all remaining bandwidth.

Metalworking taps and dies were often made by their users during the 18th and 19th centuries ( especially if the user was skilled in toolmaking ), using such tools as lathes and files for the shaping, and the smithy for hardening and tempering.

In addition to these economic forces, those who control greater amounts of capital within a society are able to participate more directly in shaping government policy, often in ways that further maximize their wealth.

Brazing over the holes and grinding, will often fix the problems, without damaging the sound, but it has to be done nearly at the end of the sinking process, and well before any final shaping.

Exercizing judicial review over almost all acts of the executive branch, the Council of State's judgments may be of considerable importance, often not for the actual case judged, but for its importance in shaping legal interpretation.

However, hand axes are often found with retouch such as sharpening or shaping, casting doubt on this idea.

Hendrik Verwoerd is often called the " Architect of Apartheid for his role in shaping the implementation of apartheid policy when he was minister of native affairs and then prime minister.

Ready made and altered " sizes " or pre cut shapes ; a convenience that often is expressed over time with wrinkles from poor shaping, leading to distortion ; The made to measure that uses measurements, not shaping, to achieve things like style, lengths and horizontal measurements ; The custom, bespoke or tailoring-designed suit that has interim half-made fittings and is cut from an actual personal pattern.

Early in the period the tombs, known as " keyhole kofun " or, often made use of the existing topography, shaping it and adding man-made moats to form a distinctive keyhole shape, i. e. that of a circle interconnected with a triangle.

In design, human – computer interaction, and software development, interaction design, often abbreviated IxD, is " about shaping digital things for people ’ s use ", alternately defined as " the practice of designing interactive digital products, environments, systems, and services.